Side air bag module

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2005-03-30

2008-10-07

Culbreth, Eric (Department: 3616)

Land vehicles

Wheeled

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C280S743100

Reexamination Certificate

active

07431332

ABSTRACT:
A side impact or rollover protection restraint system (20) is presented having an air bag (22) which upon inflation is of sufficient height to extend from proximate a seat (25) of a vehicle to a location generally adjacent the shoulder of a 95th percentile sized seated occupant such that the inflated air bag will lie between the occupant and a side portion of the vehicle. The air bag including a first and a second panel (24a,24b) of material that are joined together to create a pair of inflatable volumes (36,38) and an internal tether (30) for forming a corresponding bridge between predetermined regions of each of the first and second panel (24a, 24b) such that upon inflation of the air bag these regions are spaced from one another by at least one internal tether, wherein the air bag includes more than one inflatable volume, wherein each volume includes corresponding internal tethers.

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Anonymous, “Side air bag system”, Research Disclosure, Kenneth Mason Publications, Westbourne, GB, vol. 439, No. 14, Nov. 2000, XP007127055, ISSN 0374-4353.

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