Front-passenger airbag module

US7431327B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TAKATA-PETRI AG · DE

Inventors

• Albrecht Kretzschmar · Niederselters, DE
• Wolfgang Kampfmann · Moselkern, DE
• Stefan Fuchs · Niedernberg, DE
• Rudiger Boll · Keilberg, DE
• Norbert Sahm · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Christian Kempe · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Thomas Webert · Frammersbach, DE
• Volker Porrmann · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Maximo Papa · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Norbert Muller · Tamm, DE
• Nick Eckert · Berlin, DE
• Matthias Liebetrau · Coburg, DE
• Achilleas Leontidis · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Ralf Bartholomaus · Goldbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 10, 2005
• Grant date: Oct 7, 2008
• Expiry date: May 20, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/23123
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A front-passenger airbag module includes a gas generator, a diffuser, a self-supporting airbag, and an airbag housing. To reduce the development costs of a new airbag system, a component system that includes the airbag, the diffuser, the gas generator, and an arched airbag holder, which is arranged between the airbag housing and the gas generator and which is at least partially enclosed by the lower section of the self-supporting airbag.