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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1998
TS Tech Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
To break the trim cover 2 effectively and positively for instantaneous emerging of the inflated and expanded air bag from inside the seat, less-elongation stay cloths 7 and 8 each having two parallel sides of different lengths are provided in a region over both the front side and lateral trim cover portions 2a and 2b where the air bag is to be inflated and expanded, the stay cloths extending from the seam line 2c, or break line 3, along which the trim cover 2 is to be broken when the air bag is inflated and expanded, the front side and lateral portions 2a and 2b, respectively, of the trim cover 2, and the stay cloths 7 and 8 are positioned on the inner surfaces of the front side and lateral portions 2a and 2b of the trim cover 2, respectively, with their shorter sides thereof aligned with the respective seam-line ends of the front side and lateral trim cover portions 2a and 2b and registered with each other, and sewn at the shorter sides thereof together with the ends of the front side and lateral trim cover portions 2a and 2b, while being joined, at the longer sides thereof, to the seat back frame 4, so that the stay cloths 7 and 8 are kept tensioned on the inner surface of the trim cover 2.