Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-02
2005-08-02
Ilan, Ruth (Department: 3616)
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
C280S731000, C074S558500
Reexamination Certificate
active
06923470
ABSTRACT:
An airbag arrestor mountable about a vehicle steering column carrying a steering wheel and a airbag module is non-axially movable with respect to the vehicle steering wheel and steering column during airbag inflation by containing and redirecting airbag inflation gasses oppositely from the steering wheel through apertures in the sidewall of the airbag arrestor enclosure secured about the steering column. The airbag arrestor includes a flexible, ballistic grade material enclosure having a sidewall extending between an open end and an opposed closed end. An attachment in the form of a strap constructed of a ballistic grade material is tightenable about one end of the sidewall of the enclosure adjacent the open end to non-axially movably secure the enclosure about the vehicle steering column.
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Burgess Robert D.
Ilan Ruth
Young & Basile P.C.
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