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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113536 | Method of folding an inflatable cushion and airbag module having a folded inflatable cushion A method of folding an inflatable cushion into a housing of an airbag module is provided, the method including: arranging the inflatable cushion in an un-inflated position to define a first pleat and a second pleat each extending from a first end of the inflatable c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7942438 | Airbag with stop leak material An inflatable cushion assembly for deployment in a vehicle. The assembly has an inflator, an inflatable cushion, and particles of a stop leak material. Upon deployment, the stop leak material becomes temporarily dispersed by and suspended in inflation gas such that ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7922189 | Vehicle grip assist handle A vehicle grip assist handle is provided with a grip assist body and a first gap hider. The grip assist body includes a gripping portion and a first attachment portion. The first gap hider is attached to the first attachment portion of the grip assist body. The firs... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7699337 | Liquid silicone rubber coating agent composition and curtain air bag Provided is a liquid silicone rubber coating agent composition, including: (A) an organopolysiloxane containing at least one alkenyl group bonded to a silicon atom within each molecule, (B) a straight-chain organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing a single silicon atom... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7651118 | Polyvinyl chloride coated fabrics for use in air bags The invention is directed to textile fabrics for use in air bags and side curtains having at least one coating layer of polyvinyl chloride thereon. The textile fabric can be a flat sheet, such as used in driver side air bags, or a multi-layered woven textile having ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7641218 | Gas bag blank and method of manufacturing a gas bag A two-dimensional gas bag blank (10) has a first, a second, and a third side section (12, 14, 16). The first side section (12) is connected to the second side section (14) via a common side edge (18) forming a first edge fold line ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7635144 | Inflatable two-layer fabrics An inflatable two-layer fabric including two separated fabric layers, woven at the same time using a weaving machine, and an attachment area having a weaving pattern attaching the two fabric layers such that an air leakage per unit length (measured at 2.5 k Pa) of t... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7635145 | Motor vehicle air bag and fabric for use in same A vehicle air bag for use with an on-board inflator mechanism. The air bag is formed from a base fabric that has been dipped in an aqueous solution. As a result, a finish is applied to the base fabric to achieve a desired low permeability. ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7562899 | Coating for an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device An inflatable vehicle occupant protection device (10) includes a fabric substrate (12) and a coating (14) provided on a surface (16) of the fabric substrate (12). The coating (14) includes a thermoplastic polyether polyureth... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7543843 | Airbag coatings made with hybrid resin compositions The present disclosure is directed to the use of specific hybrid resins as airbag coatings. Preferably, the polymers used to create these hybrid resins, as described herein, are urethanes blended with acrylates, vinyls, silicones, and combinations thereof, where at ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7537238 | Side airbag A side airbag includes two main-body fabrics superimposed to have one sides opposed to each other and including a textile having 400 dtex or less yarn, 200 g/m2 or less weight, and 2,000 or more cover factor, thermosetting silicone placed at least one sid... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7497462 | Occupant protection system An occupant protection system, which can easily be mounted to a seat, includes a seat pan placed between the front parts of the side frames of a seat, an airbag arranged above the seat pan, and a gas generator for inflating the airbag. The airbag extends along the w... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7484751 | Air bag system for vehicle In a wearable air bag system which a rider puts on beforehand, a prominent impact load can be dispersed by hard protectors, and an impact on the rider can be effectively cushioned by air bags. In one embodiment, a front air bag for covering a chest portion of a ride... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7441795 | Air bag module An air bag module has a cushion size adjusting mechanism mounted for folding a part of a cushion and holding the same in an air bag housing. Thus, the expansion size of the cushion can be adjusted according to the expansion pressure of the inflator because if the ex... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434830 | Rider restraining device for two wheel vehicle An air-bag type rider restraining device for a two wheel vehicle having a scooter structure. A stay is firmly fixed by welding to a front portion of a head pipe. A connection member is fastened with two nuts onto the stay. An air bag supporting frame is connected an... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424899 | Hollow-weave airbag A hollow-weave airbag is constituted of a bag portion (11) with a 1/1 bag structure, and a closed portion (12) that has two or more weave structures and adjoins the bag portion 11. In addition, the closed portion (12) is constituted of, i... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7422231 | Air-bag An air-bag comprising an inflatable element having an inflatable region and a gas inlet throat extending from the inflatable region, a gusset of excess fabric being present in the region proximate to the junction between the gas inlet throat and the inflatable regio... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424354 | Supplemental restraint deployment method using dynamic crash classification A deployment method for a supplemental restraint system having multiple distributed acceleration sensors dynamically classifies each crash event based on relationships among the acceleration signals. A severity threshold is selected based on the instant crash classi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418330 | Electronic control unit and system for controlling dual-stage occupant restraint system In a control system for a dual-stage airbag firing system, a series circuit of first and second switching elements and a series circuit of third and fourth switching elements are connected in parallel between high and low voltage power lines, the circuit node betwee... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413219 | Airbag with a double regulating venting device An airbag comprising a bag (11) that can be inflated with the gas provided by a gas generator when the vehicle experiences a collision, with a venting device (13) comprising first a first gas discharge opening (15) and a sealing member (17 | 08/19/2008 |
| 7413221 | Airbag apparatus with accumulator An airbag apparatus includes an airbag, an inflator, and an accumulator. The airbag is configured to be stored in a vehicle before inflation. The inflator is configured to provide gas for inflating the airbag. The accumulator is in fluid communication with the airba... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7413214 | Airbag made from low tenacity yarns An airbag cushion having a novel seam structure including either a tri-stitch fold-over seam structure or a double-stitch fold-over seam structure. The novel seam structure allows airbag cushions to be manufactured by using low tenacity yarns, preferably in the rang... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409970 | Inflatable fabrics comprising basket-woven attachment points between fabric panels All-woven inflatable fabrics having areas of two layers and attachment points or “seams” where single layers of fabric are formed. Such single fabric layers may be constructed solely through the utilization of basket weave patterns. These specific single fabric ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407182 | Vehicle occupant protection device An occupant protection device for a vehicle having several longitudinal rows of seats in a passenger compartment. The occupant protection device includes an inflator for generating gas and a longitudinally elongated roof side airbag mounted to a roof side rail. The ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7396044 | Deployment control device for air bag An airbag assembly includes an airbag and a system provided in contact with at least a portion of the airbag that includes a first member and a second member. The second member at least partially overlaps the first member and is held in contact during initial deploy... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7374203 | Vehicle steering wheel A vehicle steering wheel includes a steering wheel body having a hub, a separate functional unit fastened to the hub, in particular a gas bag module, and a microphone. The microphone is arranged in a lateral gap between the steering wheel body and the functional uni... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370881 | Knee protecting airbag device In a knee protecting airbag device (M1), an airbag (26) folded and housed below a steering column (3) is expanded and inflated while rising from the lower side of the steering column (3) along a column cover lower surface (9a | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370878 | Structure for attaching a fabric sheet to a vehicle body A structure for attaching a fabric sheet to a vehicle body, wherein the fabric sheet may be prevented from being twisted together with the rotation of a threaded fastener such as a bolt during fixation of the fabric sheet to the vehicle body by the threaded fastener... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371445 | Structurally efficient airbag cushion exhibiting high available inflation volume The present invention relates to an airbag cushion which exhibits a low amount of seam usage (in order to attach at least two fabric panels or portions of a panel together) in correlation to an overall high amount of available inflation airspace within the cushion i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367585 | Inflating device for an air bag of a vehicle An inflating device has a casing, an air bag tray, an gas generating device and a check valve. The gas generating device is mounted on the casing and has a tube, an gas generator and a guiding plate. The tube extends into the casing and has an air channel and vents.... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364185 | Occupant protecting device and air bag device for rear-end collision mounted on vehicle A vehicle includes an air bag device for an occupant seated in a rearmost seat. The air bag device includes an air bag, which is accommodated at the rear end portion of the roof of the vehicle in a folded state, and an inflator, which supplies gas to the air bag. Th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364189 | Volume-filling mechanical structures with means for deploying same in a bolster system A volume-filling mechanical structure for modifying a crash including: a bolster system defined by an outer bolster and an inner bolster; a honeycomb celled material expandable from a dormant state to a deployed state, the honeycomb celled material disposed intermed... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357407 | Air bag system To suppress the transmission of vibrations from a vehicle body and an engine to an inflator in an air bag system. Rubber mounts are fitted to a retainer box for accommodating an air bag. A flange of an inflator is placed on the rubber mounts, and bolts are inserted ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359781 | Method and apparatus for determining symmetric and asymmetric crash events with improved misuse margins An apparatus (10) for controlling a multistage actuatable occupant restraining system (14, 18) of a vehicle includes a crash sensor (32) sensing crash acceleration at a substantially central location of the vehicle. A crush zone accelerometer ( | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354063 | Airbag structure An airbag construction for a vehicle is described. The construction utilizes non-circular polygon shaped panels, which provide greater nesting efficiency than previously achieved by comparable airbags using round panels. In addition, the construction enables the air... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353669 | Air bag fabric and inflatable elements formed therefrom An air bag substrate fabric utilizing a tying yarn knitting arrangement wherein a portion of the tying yarns are threaded to engage needles so as to form two stitches with one on either side of the inlay warp yarn at rows of stitch formation. The neighboring stitche... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354060 | Air bag module with low force cover opening An air bag cover includes a mounting leg having an enlarged foot captured between the base plate and the inner plate. The base plate has a channel formed along its outer edge. The inner plate overlies the base plate and has an outer end portion that partially overli... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353087 | Collision object discrimination apparatus for vehicles A collision object discrimination apparatus for vehicles includes two collision detection sensors for discriminating kinds of a collision object based on two sensor outputs. The collision object is determined based on a collision width (W) detected by a collision wi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347450 | Airbag cushion with cinch tube for reduced out-of-position effects An airbag cushion is disclosed for use in automotive protective systems. The airbag cushion includes a tube that may be restricted to prevent gas venting. A cord is coupled to the tube and to a surface of the cushion. Upon airbag deployment, the cord extends until t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347494 | Vehicle safety restraint system A vehicle safety restraint system comprises a portable base having a mounting assembly and a restraint assembly. The portable base may be a booster seat. The mounting assembly mounts the base to the seat of a vehicle and the restraint assembly restrains an occupant ... | 03/25/2008 |
