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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Takata Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2807302 ; 280751 ;
Abstract
A protective device for protecting a vehicle occupant includes at least one air bag mounted along a compartment-side surface of a side member of the vehicle and being expandable toward a compartment of the vehicle by gas introduced therein, a gas supplying unit for supplying gas into the air bag in a lateral collision of the vehicle, and a trim sheet for the interior of the vehicle covering a compartment-side-side surface of the air bag. The trim sheet is made of stretchable material for allowing the expansion of the bag.