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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2007
Neal Osterhout, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Brian Downey, Westland, MI (US);
Kristi Elliott-rumberger, Canton, MI (US);
Neal Osterhout, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Brian Downey, Westland, MI (US);
Kristi Elliott-Rumberger, Canton, MI (US);
Nissan Technical Center North America, Inc., Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
An inflatable curtain airbag integrated tether and method of manufacture can include forming an inflatable curtain from at least one panel of material defining at least one expandable chamber, forming a tether integrally from a salvage area of the at one panel of material, and attaching the tether at an attachment point to the inflatable curtain at one end and having opposite end attachable to a structural pillar of the vehicle for anchoring the inflatable curtain during inflation. The side curtain airbag can be for installation in a stowed condition proximate a roof rail of a vehicle and adapted to be inflated to a deployed condition extending downward along an inner side surface of a passenger compartment of a vehicle.