Vehicle airbag system

US11904788B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Autoliv Development AB · SE

Inventors

• Per Axblom · Hagfors, SE
• Anders Einarsson · Vårgårda, SE
• Mats Berntsson · Gothenburg, SE
• Stephane Pretot · Lerum, SE
• Par Sandinge · Alingsås, SE
• Fredrik Kjell · Alingsås, SE
• Alexander RIESS · Alingsås, SE
• Jules Houessou · Gothenburg, SE
• Charlotte Lundqvist · Gothenburg, SE
• Carl-Johan Svenson · Vårgårda, SE
• Hanna Karlsson · Stora Levene, SE
• Ola Henriksson · Vårgårda, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 3, 2020
• Grant date: Feb 20, 2024
• Expiry date: Nov 27, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/23308
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle seat and an airbag system, the seat having a backrest and a squab, extending from the backrest in a longitudinal direction, the backrest extending in height from the squab at a first lower position to a second upper position arranged proximal to shoulders of an occupant in a seated position, the airbag system having an airbag to receive inflating gas from an inflator to inflate the airbag, in which the airbag includes an upper region that extends over a head of the occupant in the seated position and a lower region that extends between a first and second side of the backrest and around a mid-section of the seated occupant, the airbag system having a tether system interconnecting the seat at the second upper position of the backrest and airbag to restrain the lower region of the airbag in the inflated configuration in the longitudinal direction.