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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1998
David Charles Viano, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Minoo Jaswantlal Shah, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Philip Wendel Hopf, Bellbrook, OH (US);
Axel Kaiser, Maintal, DE;
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle has an upper front interior corner and at least one seating position for a vehicle occupant. An air bag assembly includes an inflator for generating gas; and an air bag deployable upon generation of gas by the inflator. The air bag is stored in the upper front interior corner of the vehicle, and the air bag is a single integral air bag having a frontal portion and a side portion. The frontal portion and the side portion are in fluid communication with each other. Upon air bag deployment, the frontal portion deploys downwardly and in front of the vehicle occupant and the side portion deploys downwardly and to the side of the vehicle occupant such that the air bag wraps around the occupant during deployment. Preferably, the frontal portion and the side portion are generally 90 degrees relative to each other. Also preferably, the vehicle has air bag assemblies in opposite front upper interior corners that are mirror images of each other for commonization of parts.