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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2005
Brandon Scott Marriott, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Brandon Scott Marriott, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
TK Holdings Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
First and second lateral flaps depending from the central portion of a panel of air bag material are folded inwards towards the central portion so as to form a duct of a deflector which is closed along a top portion thereof. The duct is located inside an air bag between an inflator mounted from the outside of the air bag, and a retaining structure located within the duct, wherein the outlet end of the inflator extends through the openings in the air bag, the duct, and the retaining structure so as to provide for discharging inflation gas into the duct, which directs the gas downwardly into the airbag through an outlet proximate to a bottom edge of the panel. Holes in the lateral flaps are aligned so as to receive inflator mounting fasteners of the retaining structure, and so as to form the duct.