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Granted Patent B2
US 10,625,701 · App. 15/862,328 · Granted Apr 21, 2020

Vehicle airbag

Inventors: Jaeho Cho (Southfield, MI); Robert William McCoy (Ann Arbor, MI); Mangala Ambalangodage Jayasuriya (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
B60R21/214B60R21/233B60N2/01B60R2021/23107B60R2021/23161B60R2021/23382B60R2021/23386
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Patent No.
US 10,625,701
App. No.
15/862,328
Granted
Apr 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle includes a roof. The vehicle includes a front seat and a rear seat facing each other. The vehicle includes an airbag inflatable from the roof to an inflated position between the front seat and the rear seat. The airbag, in the inflated position, includes a first inflated leg, a second inflated leg spaced from the first inflated leg, and an inflated arced member extending from the first inflated leg to the second inflated leg, the inflated arced member including a top panel and a bottom panel spaced from each other and each arcing downwardly.

Claims (25)

1. A vehicle comprising:

a roof;

a front seat and a rear seat facing each other;

an airbag inflatable from the roof to an inflated position between the front seat and the rear seat; and

the airbag, in the inflated position, including a first inflated leg, a second inflated leg spaced from the first inflated leg, and an inflated arced member spaced from the roof extending from the first inflated leg to the second inflated leg, the inflated arced member including a top panel and a bottom panel spaced from each other and each arcing downwardly.

2. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the front seat and the rear seat are spaced from each other along a vehicle-longitudinal axis, and the first inflated leg and second inflated leg are spaced from each other along a cross-vehicle axis transverse to the vehicle-longitudinal axis.

3. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the top panel and the bottom panel each extend from the first inflated leg to the second inflated leg.

4. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the airbag includes a common inflation chamber extending through the first inflated leg, the second inflated leg, and the inflated arced member.

5. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the first inflated leg has a first proximal end and the second inflated leg has a second proximal end, the first proximal end and the second proximal end being adjacent the roof and spaced from each other.

6. The vehicle of claim 5 , wherein the first and second inflated legs have distal ends spaced from the first proximal end and the second proximal end, the distal ends being fixed to the inflated arced member.

7. The vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising a floor, and wherein the top panel faces the roof and the bottom panel faces the floor.

8. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein a gap extending along a vehicle-longitudinal axis is defined by the roof, the first inflated leg, the second inflated leg, and the inflated arced member.

9. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the airbag in the inflated position is spaced from both the front seat and the rear seat.

10. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the inflated arced member includes an arced chamber, and wherein the airbag includes a tether disposed in the arced chamber and extending from the top panel to the bottom panel.

11. The vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising tethers extending from the first and second inflated legs to the roof.

12. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the first and second inflated legs each include a proximal end adjacent the roof and a distal end spaced from the roof, and wherein the first and second inflated legs extend in a vehicle-rearward direction from the proximal end to the distal end.

13. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the first and second inflated legs each include a front panel having a first length and a rear panel having a second length that is less than the first length.

14. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the first and second inflated legs each include a top panel having a center portion fixed relative to the roof and an end portion free from being fixed relative to the roof.

15. An airbag assembly comprising:

an airbag inflatable to an inflated position; and

the airbag, in the inflated position, including a first inflated leg, a second inflated leg spaced from the first inflated leg, the first inflated leg and the second inflated leg each extending from a proximal end to a distal end, and an inflated arced member extending from the first inflated leg to the second inflated leg, the inflated arced member including a top panel and a bottom panel spaced from each other and each arcing downwardly from an apex that is below the proximal ends and above the distal ends.

16. The airbag assembly of claim 15 , wherein a gap is defined by the first inflated leg, the second inflated leg, and the inflated arced member.

17. The airbag assembly of claim 15 , wherein the first inflated leg includes a first chamber, the second inflated leg includes a second chamber, and the inflated arced member includes an arced chamber, the first chamber, the second chamber, and the arced chamber all being in fluid communication with one another.

18. The airbag assembly of claim 17 , wherein the airbag includes tethers disposed in the arced chamber and extending from the top panel to the bottom panel.

19. The airbag assembly of claim 15 , wherein the top panel and the bottom panel extend from the first inflated leg to the second inflated leg.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 4, 2018
From: CHO, JAEHO; MCCOY, ROBERT W.; JAYASURIYA, MANGALA AMBALANGODAGE
To: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Reel/Frame 044539/0037 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190202391A1 · Jul 4, 2019
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