Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hondo Motor Co., Ltd.

Naoki Takemura

Hidetoshi Utsumi

Takashi Aoki

Yuichi Saito

Takashi Nakamura

Hirofumi Totsuka

Koji Ikeda

Kohei Okimoto

Hiroyuki Isayama

Hiroyuki Hirayama

An air bag system for a vehicle including a cover for housing an air bag in a folded state along a side of a roof of the vehicle is provided. The cover includes a pair of opposed walls approximately parallel to each other, a connection wall that connects the pair of the opposed walls, an opening that is defined by the pair of the opposed walls and opens downward, a bent section that is formed to be bent three-dimensionally upward and inward so as to go along a face shape of the vehicle body where the cover is installed, at least one load transmission part that is provided on the connection wall so as to transmit a load from a vehicle interior side to a vehicle exterior side, and a locking portion that is provided on the load transmission part on the vehicle exterior side.

Air bag system for vehicle

A vehicle occupant protection apparatus for use in a vehicle includes an occupant-protecting expansion part caused to expand in the form of a curtain in the vehicle cabin along windows. The expansion part is attached to the vehicle body at two attachment points positioned forward and rearward of the windows. A tension line that joins the two attachment points is in a position where the expansion part is extended between the two points, and is positioned below the lower edges of the windows.

Vehicle occupant protection apparatus

Curtain-shaped bag bodiesare expanded and developed inside a vehicle room on windows of a vehicle. The bag bodiesare expanded and developed by a plurality of inflaters, and the plurality of inflatersare arranged in the same interior material being well organized.

Passenger protective device

An occupant restraint system in which an air bag is inflated with a gas generated by an inflator so as to be deployed along an inner surface of a side portion of a passenger compartment in a curtain-like fashion when a vehicle is involved in a collision, wherein a portion of the air bag in a folded state which is located in the vicinity of an end portion thereof is disposed within a space between a pillar and a pillar garnish mounted on a side of the pillar which faces a passenger compartment. By accommodating the air bag within an air bag accommodation chamber formed by partitioning the space with a bulkhead formed integrally on the pillar garnish, the bulkhead is allowed to be interposed between other members residing within the pillar garnish such as clips and brackets and the air bag.

Occupant restraint system

In an occupant restraint system C, an airbagis inflated by using gas, which is generated by an inflatorupon a vehicle collision, to be deployed into a shape of curtain along the inner surface of a side of a vehicle compartment. The occupant restraint system C includes pluralities of cellsand, which are inflated along the inner surfaces of a B-pillarand a C-pillar. By inclining axes Sto Sof the cellsandwith respect to an axis Pof the B-pillaror an axis Pof the C-pillar, the lower ends of these cellsandare hardly trapped by the B-pillaror the C-pillar. Thus, the cells of the airbag are prevented from being trapped by the pillars to thereby enable the smooth deployment of the airbag.

An occupant restraint system includes an air bag arranged inside a roof side rail in a folded state. When a vehicle is involved in a collision, the air bag so arranged is inflated with a gas generated by an inflator so as to be deployed along an inner surface of a side portion of a passenger compartment in a curtain-like fashion. In a pillar garnish which covers a side of a pillar inner of a B pillar which faces a passenger compartment side, a rod-like projection provided on an inner surface of the pillar garnish at an upper portion thereof in such a manner as to project therefrom is inserted into a hole formed in the pillar inner. Even in case the air bag which is being deployed pushes against an upper end of the pillar garnish, the dislocation of the pillar garnish from the pillar inner is prevented.

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