Takata Corporation

Kureha Corporation

Tomohiro Sawa

Tadahiro Igawa

Kazuhiro Abe

Yasuhito Miyata

Masahiro Ono

Shigeru Suzuki

Masashi Yamamoto

Mikiro Yanaka

Shigeyuki Kikumoto

Atsushi Saitou

Ryo Matsui

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An airbag constructing technology is provided that is useful for improving the protection of a driver upon the occurrence of a vehicle accident, and related techniques. The airbag apparatus to be mounted on an automotive two-wheeler has an airbag which is inflated in a driver-protecting area formed in front of the driver upon the occurrence of a front vehicle collision. This airbag has a tether connecting inner wall surfaces facing each other of the airbag. Inflation of the vehicle rear side wall of the airbag toward the driver is regulated via the tether. Inflation of the vehicle front side wall of the airbag toward the front vehicle is allowed. This tether is prepared by sewing first to third tether component pieces to each other sewn to the inner wall surface of the airbag.

Airbag apparatus, motorcycle equipped with airbag apparatus and manufacturing method of airbag apparatus

A leg protection device for a vehicle occupant is disposed inside a seat-front member of a vehicle. The leg protection device includes an air bag having a rear panel and positioned along the seat-front member and a front panel facing the occupant when the air bag is inflated, and a gas generator for inflating the air bag. When the air bag is inflated, the air bag has a vertical length at a center portion of the front panel in the width direction longer than a vertical length at a center portion of the rear panel in the width direction to obtain a curved cross section.

Leg protection device for vehicle occupant

An external airbag device is provided which can smoothly deploy its airbag with being caught by neither a rear edge of a hood nor a windshield wiper. A lidis allowed to be displaced relative to a retainerin the vertical direction because hooksare movable in the vertical direction within apertures. When an airbagis inflated, the lidis lifted and is torn to open outwardly by the inflation pressure of the airbagto create flaps. The flapwhich pivoted outwardly toward the front of the motor vehicle is laid on an outer surface of a rear edge portion of a hood. The flapwhich pivoted outwardly toward the rear of the motor vehicle is laid on a cowl topbelow the windshieldto cover windshield wipers

Exterior airbag device

An inflatable external airbag system adapted to securely deploy an airbag along a windshield from a rear portion of a hood with little or no influence of wind direction and/or wind pressure around the top of a running vehicle. The hood includes a front portion and a rear portion. The rear portion includes a deployment direction regulating member. The front and rear portions of the hood may be coupled together via a hinge. As the airbag inflates, the rear hood portion pivots upwardly to a predetermined angle to hang over the airbag just like a flap thereby regulating the deployment direction of the airbag to deflect the deployment toward the windshield.

Inflatable external airbag system

A glove box is mounted to an interior panel in front of a seat of an automobile. A cover of the glove box is rotatable around a hinge shaft for opening and closing the glove box. A vehicle occupant protection device, which has an airbag and a gas generator, is disposed in the cover. The gas generator of the airbag device, which has a large mass, is disposed closer to the hinge shaft than a middle point of a rotational radius of the cover for easy rotations of the cover.

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Shiga, Japan

Tomohiro Sawa