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Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
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B60R 21/18 (2006.01) B60R 21/04 (2006.01) B60R 21/16 (2006.01) B60R 21/20 (2006.01) B60R 21/00 (2006.01) B60R 21/26 (2006.01) B60R 22/46 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2389880
A vehicular occupant restraint system includes an airbag, an inflator, and a seat belt system including a shoulder belt and a pre-tensioner. The airbag is disposed in a folded state along an upper edge of a door opening of a vehicle body. When the vehicle is involved in a side collision, the airbag is inflated by a gas generated by the inflator so that it is deployed into a curtain shape along an inner face of a side of an occupant compartment. Unlike conventional pre- tensioner systems that only tension a seatbelt when the vehicle is involved in a front collision, the pre-tensioner of the present invention also applies a tension to the shoulder belt of the seat belt system when the vehicle is involved in a side collision. Since a tension is applied to the shoulder belt by operation of the pre-tensioner that normally operates only when the vehicle is involved in a front collision, it is possible to maintain a correct positional relationship between the shoulder belt and an occupant even in the case where there is interference between the shoulder belt and the airbag that is deploying downward from above along the inner face of the side of the occupant compartment.
Aoki Takashi
Ochiai Fumiharu
Saita Naohiko
Saito Yuichi
Utsumi Hidetoshi
Goudreau Gage Dubuc
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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