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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2004
Applicant:
Bruce R. Hill, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Inventor:
Bruce R. Hill, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
TRW Vehicle Safety Systems Inc., Washington, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D03D 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An inflatable vehicle occupant protection device () for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle () includes strands of material woven together to form both (a) overlying woven panels (and) and (b) single layer first and second woven seams (and) that include strands of material from each of the overlying panels. The first and second seams (and) help define an inflatable volume () of the inflatable vehicle occupant protection device () between the overlying panels (and). The first seam () has a weave pattern different than the weave pattern of the second seam ().