Chrysler Corporation

Chrysler Motors Corporation

Donald L Silsbe

Janice E Cote

Lynn K Tilly

Michael T Twomley

John C St Pierre

Lawrence M Marcinkowski

Michael J Seventko

An air bag module is mounted on a side frame bar of the seat back of a front seat of an automotive vehicle. The module has a canister provided with a door which is adapted to swing out and form an opening through which the air bag can deploy in a generally forward direction to help protect an occupant of the seat in a side impact.

Side air bag

An improved asymmetric wire-hook for a closure one-piece latch wire retainer pivotally mounted to a hinged member wherein the hook is latched upon rotation through an elongated slot of an anchor member. The retainer includes axially aligned wire-lengths terminating in spaced apart opposed bend portions interconnected by the wire-hook. The wire-hook includes one end of a long finger connected to one bend portion and sloped downwardly at a predetermined obtuse-angle relative to one wire length and a short finger connected to the other bend portion and extending downwardly at a right angle relative to the remaining wire length. The long finger lower end terminates in a first acute-angled bend juncture connected to a proximate end of a single lead-in wire segment upwardly sloped at a relatively steep incline while the short finger lower end terminates in a second acute-angle bend juncture connected to a proximate end of a single lead-out wire segment upwardly sloped at a relatively flat incline. The single lead-in and lead-out segments minimizing frictional drag thereby reducing operator effort during closure latching and unlatching with the anchor member slot while the lead-out segment obviates hang-up with a downturned lip defining the slot upper edge.

Asymmetrical wire hook latch arrangement

A seat cushion is mounted as a vehicle floor panel by a plastic anchor member adapted to be snap-fitted into position in a panel aperture by means of locking fingers. The anchor member has an oval-sectioned tubular open-ended body with the interior of its side walls formed with parallel mutually opposed pairs of ribs defining a pair of spaced upwardly open V-shaped notches. Each pair of ribs have their lower ends interconnected by mutually opposed base flanges defining therebeteween an elongated gap. The base flange undersurfaces are sloped upwardly providing an inverted V-shaped locking catch. The catch is adapted to capture the striker upon it being forcefully pushed downwardly into the V-notches allowing the striker to snappingly pass through the gap.

Attaching arrangement for vehicle seat cushion

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Woodhaven, MI, United States of America

Donald L Silsbe