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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
May. 17, 2017
Autoliv Development Ab, Vargarda, SE;
AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB, Vargarda, SE;
Abstract
A curtain airbag device with which the position of a tether that pulls an end chamber during inflation and deployment thereof can be stabilized, thereby stabilizing the deployment behavior of the end chamber. A curtain airbag deviceis housed in a side face upper portion of a vehicle cabin and inflated and deployed along the side face, and includes a main chamberthat is inflated and deployed using gas from an inflator, an end chamberthat is disposed on a front endof the main chamber and inflated and deployed by gas received from the main chamber, a tabattached to an upper portion of the main chamber, a bracketfixed to the side face upper portion of the vehicle cabin, the tab being passed through the bracket, and a tetherattached so as to extend from a front endof an upper portion of the end chamber to the bracket, wherein a length La of the tether is shorter than a distance Lb from the front end of the upper portion of the end chamber to the bracket in a case where the main chamber and the end chamber are inflated and deployed without the tether.