Occupant protection device

US7004496B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TAKATA CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

• Maximilian Bossecker · Blieskastel, DE
• Robert Getz · Ulm, DE
• Ulrich Karlbauer · Ulm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 22, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 28, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 22, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/2074
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An occupant protection device with an airbag for fastening in a vehicle seat. In order, in an occupant protection device of this type, to make it possible for the seat to be produced and installed very simply and cost-effectively and to achieve reliable deployment of the airbag, the invention proposes that the occupant protection device has a receiving container for the airbag, which container is free of closure flaps, and the opening of the receiving container is covered by a seat cover of the vehicle seat. In this case, the seat cover is to be fastened to a side wall of the receiving container in such a manner that, when the airbag is inflated with gas, the seat cover tears open in the region of the opening of the receiving container.