Steering device equipped with air bag

Details Steering device equipped with air bag Steering device equipped with air bag

1996-11-18

1999-02-16

Nelson, Peter A.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

280780, B62D 116

Patent

active

058712330

ABSTRACT:
A steering device equipped with an air bag, in which the air bag is completely inflated and expanded in a state in which a steering wheel has been moved in a direction toward a driver when a vehicle suddenly decelerates. The steering device equipped with the air bag has a driving device which tilts the steering wheel toward the driver when the vehicle suddenly decelerates and includes a pawl, a tilt cam, a connected member, a wire, and a pretensioner and a holding device which maintains a tilted state of the steering wheel and includes a lock member and a lock plate. When the vehicle suddenly decelerates, the wire is pulled, the tilt cam rotates, and the pawl moves away from a steering support. The steering wheel is tilted a maximum amount toward the driver, this state is maintained by the holding device, and the air bag inflates and expands. Accordingly, the steering wheel is oriented toward the driver and an expanded air bag is oriented toward the driver such that kinetic energy of the driver is effectively absorbed.

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