Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Naoki Kawajiri

Koji Ikeda

Fumitoshi Yasuhara

Kazuaki Miyamoto

Takeru Otsuka

Fumiharu Ochiai

Takeru Fukuda

A belt-like protruding portionextending longitudinally is provided on an air bag coverwhich covers a folded air bag. In the event that the air bagis twisted when the air bagis mounted on a vehicle body, a longitudinal dimension of the air bagis contracted largely, whereby an interval between adjacent mounting portionsis decreased, thereby the fixing of the air bagbeing disabled. As a result, the fixing of the air bagin the twisted state is prevented assuredly, and the smooth deployment of the air bagis enabled. A rod-like twist preventing member may be fixed longitudinally along the folded air baginstead of the belt-like protruding portion

Occupant restraint system

An airbag system includes an airbag arrangement being expanded at a side of a vehicle compartment by igniting an inflator based on a signal from a collision-detecting sensor arrangement in the event of a collision of the vehicle, wherein the airbag arrangement includes a front seat-protecting airbag and a rear seat-protecting airbag, the collision-detecting sensor arrangement includes at least a front seat-detecting sensor for detecting a side impact occurring near a front seat and a rear seat-detecting sensor for detecting a side impact occurring near a rear seat, and the front seat-protecting airbag is expanded when the front seat-detecting sensor detects a side impact, the rear seat-protecting airbag is expanded when the rear seat-detecting sensor detects a side impact.

Airbag system

An occupant restraint system includes an airbag and an inflator. The front end of a gas supply pipe, which extends from the inflator housed in a rear pillar to the interior of the airbag and guides the gas generated by the inflator to the airbag, is substantially vertically aligned with front portion of a rear wheel wheelhouse of the vehicle. Since the gas supply pipe can be positioned in an area in which the vehicle body rigidity has been increased by the rear pillar and the wheelhouse, it can be effectively prevented from being damaged due to the impact of a side collision of the vehicle. Moreover, since the inflator is housed in the rear pillar, which is wider and more rigid than a front pillar, it is possible to minimize or effectively prevent damage to the inflator.

A vehicular occupant restraint system is provided with an airbag and an inflator. A front end of the folded airbag is housed within a front pillar garnish covering a side face on the occupant compartment side of a front pillar, and impact absorbing ribs are formed on the inner face of the front pillar garnish only in a section(s) that receives little deformation when the airbag is deployed. Since the front pillar garnish can be easily flexed when the air bag is deployed, there is neither inhibition to the smooth deployment of the airbag nor splitting and scattering of a part of the front pillar garnish. Moreover, since the impact absorbing ribs are formed on the front pillar garnish in the section(s) that receives little deformation, the impact of a secondary collision to an occupant can be absorbed effectively by the impact absorbing ribs.

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Naoki Kawajiri