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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroyuki Takeuchi, Hikone, JP;
Yoji Suyama, Aichi-gun, JP;
Assignee:
Takata Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 2/118 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 2/118 ;
Abstract
An air belt device which, after an air belt is deployed in a collision, can gradually discharge gas outside, thereby reducing the impact applied to the body of the occupant which is pushed against the air belt. Once an inflator,is actuated in the state that a tongue,is engaged with a buckle,seal members,are opened by gas pressure so that gas is supplied through a first gas path,of the buckle,and a first guide path,of the tongue,to an air belt,B so as to inflate the air belt,B. After that, the gas pressure is applied to seal members,so as to open the seal member,so that the gas in the air belt,B is discharged through a second gas path