Bridgestone Corporation

Yosuke Matsushima

Yasuhiro Iino

Takeshi Kimura

Shinichi Toyosawa

Yoshihide Fukahori

Tomozane Terazawa

Akeshi Noda

Hirohito Nishimura

Shozo Sugiki

Tomozane Terasawa

Yasuhiro Lino

The invention provides an air bag apparatus which is simple in structure and light in weight while assuring a sufficient strength and wherein a pad cover can be mounted readily onto a base plate by a simplified mounting apparatus. The air bag apparatus has at least an air bag for protecting a driver of a vehicle upon collision of the vehicle, a base plate for mounting thereon a gas generator for inflating the air bag, and a pad cover secured to the base plate for accommodating the air bag and the gas inflator therein. A portion of the base plate is deformed into a predetermined shape to secure the pad cover to the base plate. Preferably, a portion of the base plate is bent to form a side inner face portion and is further folded back to form a side outer face portion, and a terminal portion of the pad cover is held between and secured by the side outer face portion and the side inner face portion of the base plate.

Air bag apparatus

An air bag includes a pair of laminated films and an opening for inflator, in which each laminated film is at least one elastomer layer and at least one shape holding layer.

Air bag

An air bag comprises a facing sheet and a backing sheet of thermoplastic resin film and laminated on at least an outer peripheral joining region thereof with a thermoplastic resin film. An adhesion reinforcing layer(s) is interposed between the facing sheet and the backing sheet at the joining region and made from a thermoplastic resin provided that an insulating layer is interposed in the adhesion reinforcing layer at a region ranging from a position corresponding to an approximately center of the outer peripheral joining region toward the inside thereof. The facing and backing sheets and the adhesion reinforcing layer are heat-welded together at the outer peripheral joining region.

Thermoplastic resin film air bag

A first air bag comprises an upper cloth and a lower cloth, the peripheries of the both cloths being connected, characterized in that the upper cloth consists of an airtight sheet obtained by weaving a composite fiber composed of a filament core and a thermoplastic polymer bonded thereto-which has a melting point lower than that of said filament core, and then fusing said thermoplastic polymer so that the surface of said upper cloth has a continuous thermoplastic polymer layer. A second air bag consists of a membranous material having a breaking extension of 100% or more. A third air bag comprises an elastomer body and a shape-retaining member partially attached to the elastomer body, said member being composed of elastic fibers or threads and high-modulus fibers.

A first air bag comprises an upper cloth and a lower cloth, the peripheries of the both cloths being connected, characterized in that the upper cloth consists of an airtight sheet obtained by weaving a composite fiber composed of a filament core and a thermoplastic polymer bonded thereto which has a melting point lower than that of said filament core, and then fusing said thermoplastic polymer so that the surface of said upper cloth has a continuous thermoplastic polymer layer. A second air bag consists of a membranous material having a breaking extension of 100% or more. A third air bag comprises an elastomer body and a shape-retaining member partially attached to the elastomer body, said member being composed of elastic fibers or threads and high-modulus fibers.

An air bag housing pad cover which is light in weight and soft to the touch and opens in case of crash with certainty over a broad temperature range. A method of producing the air bag housing pad cover efficiently in high yields from a compound composed of a thermoplastic elastomer and a light filler in an amount of 5 to 50 vol % of the compound, the former having a tensile strength higher than 100 kg/cm.sup.2 and a Shore indentation hardness lower than 55 D, and the latter having a true specific gravity lower than 0.7 and a compression strength higher than 50 kg/cm.sup.2.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Yosuke Matsushima