Autoliv Development Ab

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Autoliv Asp, Incorporated

Yutaka Tsuchida

Koichi Akiyama

Akira Ueki

Yosuke Shimizu

Takashi Kondo

Richard Lawrence Matsu

Quin Soderquist

Raimund Nebel

Kelly B Johnson

Yutaka Hirota

Yukihiro Kunitake

Remi Baillivet

Hiroya Tabushi

Shinobu Yamamoto

Kunitomo Miyahara

David Palm

Takeshi Ohwada

Takashi Idomoto

Chihiro Ito

Kunio Ohbayashi

Hiroshi Takamori

Jean-Bernard Tessier

A steering wheel structure with an airbag module having a horn bracket fixed to a steering wheel, an airbag module having an inflator and serving as a weight, a spring unit installed between the airbag module and the horn bracket and transmitting vibrations of the steering wheel to the airbag module for configuring a dynamic damper. The spring unit including an elastic body that transmits the vibrations and a protector attached to the horn bracket and housing the elastic body therein in an elastically deformable manner.

Steering wheel structure with airbag module

A steering wheel unit for a motor vehicle. The steering wheel unit has a steering wheel and an airbag module () located in the hub area of the steering wheel. This airbag module forms a housing (), an airbag () folded into the housing, and a gas generator (). The airbag module can be pushed down against the force of at least one spring element to activate a horn, whereby positioning means are present which define the position of the airbag module in relation to the steering wheel. In order to achieve a high degree of operational reliability and a very exact positioning of the airbag module in the steering wheel, at least one retaining means () is present which acts between the airbag module and the steering wheel (). This retaining means is ineffective in the absence of outer forces and when the airbag module () is pressed down to activate a horn.

Steering wheel unit

An airbag device according to the invention is applicable to an airbag device having an airbag that is housed in a state of being able to inflate and deploy in front of an occupant. The airbag has a center chamber positioned in the vicinity of the center on the occupant side in a deployed state, and side chambers positioned on both the left and right sides of the center chamber. Moreover the airbag is provided with a gas supply section that supplies inflation gas to inside of the side chambers, and a means for introducing inflation gas to inside of the center chamber after the side chamber. Furthermore, the side chamber has; a gas introduction space into which inflation gas from the gas supply section is introduced, an upper space that extends upward from the gas introduction space, and a lower space that extends downward from the gas introduction space.

Airbag device

Disclosed are embodiments of an airbag cushion and related airbag modules including a plurality of flaps that may be used to secure the airbag within a module housing. In one embodiment of the invention, first and second flaps are connected with the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion is adapted to be condensed into a compact configuration wherein the first flap extends adjacent to the second flap and in at least approximately the opposite direction as the second flap.

Airbag module flaps

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Ibaraki, Japan

Yutaka Tsuchida