Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Patent
1992-11-06
1994-06-21
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
180282, 222 5, 280730R, 280743R, B60R 2126, B60R 2132
Patent
active
053223268
ABSTRACT:
An air bag type of passenger protector equipped in a vehicle. The passenger protector comprises a compressed gas supplying assembly and an air bag receiving assembly for receiving an air bag which is connected to the compressed gas supplying assembly by means of a power hose. The compressed gas supplying assembly comprises a compressed gas container, a movable weight, a hinged link, a hinged lever and a perforating pin. If there occurs a vehicle collision, the weight is reliably operated in response to a mechanical shock caused by the vehicle collision and this causes the hinged link and the hinged lever to be sequentially turned and in turn causes the perforating pin to be pushed so as to perforate a closed tip of the compressed gas container. As the closed tip of the gas container is perforated by the perforating pin, the compressed gas rapidly blows out of the gas container and into the air bag having an outer shape which is coincident with the human body by forming an upper junction point, a pair of middle junction points and a U-shaped junction line, thereby efficiently preventing the passenger from being directly struck on a vehicle body and, in this respect, protecting the passenger from being injured.
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English Peter C.
Focarino Margaret A.
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