Receptacle arrangement for an air bag

US5135255A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Henseler · Tübingen, DE
• Manfred Muller · Wuppertal, DE
• Egon Katz · Nagold, DE
• Guido Wetzel · Neubukow, DE
• Luigi Brambilla · Eppelheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 4, 1991
• Grant date: Aug 4, 1992
• Expiry date: Apr 4, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/161
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A receptacle arrangement for an air bag which protects a vehicle occupant from an impact onto parts of the vehicle interior, has a covering which is fixed to a base plate and covers an air bag container. The covering folds out along a hinge axis of a hinge in the edge region of the air bag container during the unfolding of the air bag, after which it exposes a container aperture for the passage of the bag fabric into an inflated position in front of the vehicle occupant. The covering has, in addition to the first hinge, two further hinges which bound the first hinge on both sides, are approximately perpendicular thereto and have a clearance from the lateral edges of the covering. Thereby, two lateral covering flaps are formed which subdivide the swivellable covering.