Motor vehicles – With means for promoting safety of vehicle – its occupant or... – Responsive to engagement of portion of perimeter of vehicle...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-09
2010-12-07
Dickson, Paul N (Department: 3616)
Motor vehicles
With means for promoting safety of vehicle, its occupant or...
Responsive to engagement of portion of perimeter of vehicle...
C280S730100, C280S743200
Reexamination Certificate
active
07845454
ABSTRACT:
A pedestrian airbag apparatus is provided that has a portion, when inflated, extending along a vehicle body's outer surface so as to spread into the surroundings of a case, and connected to the case by means of a tether, and the occurrence of a deformation such as warpage or the like on an airbag is suppressed, the deformation being due to the tension of the tether. Each of both end sides of a cowl masking portion5aof the airbag5is connected to the case8by the tether30. One end of the tether30is connected to a mid portion between a facing area R of the cowl masking portion5afacing the case8and the utmost tip portion of the cowl masking portion5aon each of both left and right end sides thereof, and the other end of the tether30is connected to each of left and right end walls8dof the case8.
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Machine Translation of JP 2004-299442 (a reference cited by Applicant).
Kobayashi Yoshihiro
Nakamura Atsushi
Takimoto Takayuki
Dickson Paul N
Kanesaka Manabu
Rocca Joseph
Takata Corporation
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