Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Toyoda Cosei Co., Ltd.

Masao Ando

Kazumi Ichimaru

Hisao Hanabusa

Yuuji Kuriyama

Michio Inoue

Yuji Kuriyama

Hikaru Ando

Michihisa Asaoka

Shoji Sakaida

Kazutoshi Sakamoto

An air bag cover made from a woven textile and adapted to be used to cover a folded air bag, wherein a breakable portion allowed to be ruptured at the time of inflation of the air bag is constituted by a plurality of slits provided intermittently. An auxiliary slit is formed on a side of a connection portion between the slits so that threads disposed in the connection portion and intersecting extension line of the slits at the connection portion are cut.

Air bag cover

A process is provided for molding a pad for an air bag device. The pad has a cover portion, a hinge portion disposed near one edge thereof, and a bracket portion extending from the hinge portion at an angle with respect to the cover portion. The pad is provided with a flexible reinforcing insert embedded therein, extending from the bracket portion to the cover portion through the hinge portion. The insert is set in a mold, while the mold is open, so that the insert may be held in position by pins projecting from the mold into that portion of a mold cavity which forms the bracket portion of the pad. After the mold is closed, a molding material is injected into the mold cavity through a gate connected to that edge of the cavity which forms the one edge of the cover portion of the pad. A pad formed by the process is also provided.

Air bag device and method of molding a pad portion thereof

An air bag device is provided including an air bag 1, an inflator 5, and a casing 7 including an upper case member and a lower case member, surrounding the air bag and the inflator. The lower case member 16 and auxiliary plates 18 form fitting recesses 17 at the connecting portion 16a of the lower case member which open upwardly. Tongue pieces 10 are formed at the connecting portion 9a of the upper case member near the gas jetting outlets 6 of the inflator in such a manner that they are extended downwardly from the upper case member. The tongue pieces 10 are inserted into the fitting recesses 17 to form the casing. The auxiliary plates 18 are pushed against the tongue pieces 10 by the pressure of gas jetted from the gas jetting outlets 6.

Air bag device including a two piece casing

An air bag device for an instrument panel has a cover with a hinge and in one embodiment a break-away portion made of thermoplastic material. The cover has a bracket. The strength of the break-away portion is lower than that of the cover. The break-away portion breaks when an air bag inflates. The cover opens rotationally around the hinge. The second embodiment has no break-away portion.

Air bag device

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Kasugai, Japan

Masao Ando