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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2010
Paul Mark Marable, Rayleigh, GB;
Allen Charles Bosio, Basildon, GB;
Timothy Scott, Benfleet, GB;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An airbag assembly for a motor vehicle has an airbagthat is inflated by an inflatorwhen the airbagis deployed in accordance with a control signal from an electronic controller. A portion of the airbagin a region where an expected head impact with the airbagwill occur is formed by a soft panel portionwhich provides a softer or more compliant structure that can expand or stretch to an increased surface area condition to thereby reduce the risk of injury to an occupant. The soft panel portionis constructed so as to provide increased give or stretch relative to the other parts of the fabric bagwhen a head of an occupant impacts against it.