Gas bag arrangements for a steering wheel of a motor vehicle

US8899618B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TAKATA-PETRI AG · DE

Inventors

• Nick Eckert · Berlin, DE
• Frank Wollny · Berlin, DE
• Wolfgang Thonhauser · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 2011
• Grant date: Dec 2, 2014
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/23382
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A gasbag arrangement for a steering wheel of a motor vehicle is provided. The gasbag arrangement includes a gasbag which can be inflated for protecting a vehicle occupant. The gasbag, when inflated and mounted in the vehicle, includes an indentation in a portion that points towards the vehicle floor in the straight-ahead position of the steering wheel for reducing the expansion of a gasbag in the direction of a body region extending below the thorax region of the vehicle occupant such that a load on that body region during an impact of the vehicle occupant on the gasbag is minimized. According to another aspect a gasbag arrangement includes a gasbag which, when inflated and mounted in the vehicle, includes a side facing towards the vehicle floor and extending essentially parallel to a plane spanned by the longitudinal vehicle direction and the transverse vehicle direction.