Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Jonathan San

Robert Joseph Hazlewood

Nora Arellano

Leon Toma

Phouvadol P Khouphongsy

Patrick J Edgar

Jessica A Riffe

Chad Eric Anderson

Yi-Ru Chen Sosnowski

An airbag apparatus for a vehicle including an airbag stored in a folded state in a portion of a vehicle body and an inflator that provides a gas for inflating the airbag. The airbag including a main chamber and a delay chamber. The main chamber operable to be inflated earlier than the delay chamber. The delay chamber including an opening through which the gas passes from the main chamber to the delay chamber; and the delay chamber further including a weakened portion having less strength than the opening.

Delay orifice opening

A seat back frame assembly and seat assembly are provided. The seat back frame assembly includes a pair of side members spaced apart from each other, a top member spaced apart from a bottom member, each of the top and bottom members interconnecting each of the pair of side members so as to define a peripheral edge, the peripheral edge enclosing a back space. An interference member is disposed within the back space and spaced apart from an inner surface of one of the pair of side members. The interference member disposed above a midpoint of the one of the pair of side members and includes a sliding surface angled obtusely with respect to the back space so as to direct an occupant forward of the back space and away from the side member when experiencing a side load.

Seat back frame assembly with interference member

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Jonathan San