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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2016
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Michal Jan Swiniarski, Brentwood, GB;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A side curtain airbag assembly for a motor vehicle has an airbag that includes a pair of deployable outwardly extending tongues. The tongues project are positioned so as to engage an upstanding structural member such as a 'B' pillar when they are inflated/deployed so that the 'B' pillar is sandwiched between the two tongues. The tongues act to resist longitudinal movement of the airbag thereby reducing outward bulging of the airbag if it is subject to an impact force from an interior of the motor vehicle. The tongues are inflated via respective tubes that receive inflation gasses from the airbag and conduct the gasses into the tongues. The inlet ends of the tubes are adjacent a lower end thereof to ensure that the tongues are not inflated until the airbag is fully deployed downward. The tubes may extend within the interior of the airbag or along the exterior.