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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2003
Kenji Imamura, Toyota, JP;
Junichi Nakano, Toyota, JP;
Shigeru Hoshino, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An occupant protection apparatus includes an air bag devicefor deploying an air bag between a steering wheeland an occupant H and an impact-energy-absorption-type steering columnequipped with an energy-absorbing mechanism, and absorbs impact energy of the occupant H during a vehicle collision event. Both the air bag deviceand the energy-absorbing mechanismare of a variable energy absorption load type. When their energy absorption loads are varied, the energy absorption loads change in the same direction.
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