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Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Tadao Tanaka

Chiharu Totani

Hiroyuki Tajima

Yutaka Nagai

Fumitake Kobayashi

Minoru Shibata

Goro Takahashi

Hiroki Nakajima

Yasushi Kubota

Masamichi Aono

Takuya Ohtsuka

Katsunori Noto

Hiroshi Ishiyama

A structure of arranging an vehicle occupant protecting apparatus for an automotive vehicle, which can prevent a pillar garnish from scattering when an air bag installed in a front pillar portion is expanded, is provided. An air bag is housed within a space formed by a front pillar main body and a pillar garnish in a front pillar portion When the air bag expands, the pillar garnish is pressed by an expanding pressure of the air bag so that an opening for expanding the air bag is formed between the front pillar main body and the pillar garnish and the air bag expands into a vehicle cabin through the opening. Since a non-expanding portion is formed at the air bag and a hinge portion is formed at the pillar garnish the expanding pressure applied to the pillar garnish when the air bag expand is low, so that the pillar garnish can be easily opened through the hinge portion

Arrangement and construction of crew protective device for automobile

A structure of arranging an vehicle occupant protecting apparatus for an automotive vehicle, which can prevent a pillar garnish from scattering when an air bag installed in a front pillar portion is expanded, is provided. An air bag,is housed within a space formed by a front pillar main body,and a pillar garnish,in a front pillar portion,When the air bag,expands, the pillar garnish,is pressed by an expanding pressure of the air bag,so that an opening for expanding the air bag,is formed between the front pillar main body,and the pillar garnish,and the air bag,expands into a vehicle cabin through the opening. since a non-expanding portion is formed at the air bag,and a hinge portion,is formed at the pillar garnish,the expanding pressure applied to the pillar garnish,when the air bag,expand is low, so that the pillar garnish,can be easily opened through the hinge portion

An air bag cover is formed of synthetic resin and is connected to and held by the body of a car in a plurality of discontinuous portions thereof along the peripheral edge of an opening formed on the interior side of the car in such a manner that the air bag cover not only can cover an air bag folded in the peripheral edge of the opening on the car interior side, but also, when an air bag main body of the air bag is developed and expanded, can be so opened and moved as to allow the air bag main body to project toward the opening side. The air bag cover further includes a restricting wall which projects toward the body of the car in such a manner that it can connect together these connecting/holding portions while the restricting wall is disposed on the back surface side of the air bag cover, in more particular, on the side of the folded air bag main body that is distant from the opening and on the opening side of connecting/holding portions.

Air bag cover

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Nagoya, Japan

Tadao Tanaka