US 12,291,162 B2
Vehicle passenger restraint device and far side airbag folding method
Hideki Takasawa, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Nov. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/519,072.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-208915 (JP), filed on Dec. 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0208451 A1, Jun. 27, 2024
Int. Cl. B60R 21/231 (2011.01); B60R 21/207 (2006.01); B60R 21/233 (2006.01); B60R 21/2338 (2011.01); B60R 21/237 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 21/23138 (2013.01) [B60R 21/207 (2013.01); B60R 21/233 (2013.01); B60R 21/2338 (2013.01); B60R 21/237 (2013.01); B60R 2021/23146 (2013.01); B60R 2021/23161 (2013.01); B60R 2021/23324 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle passenger restraint device, comprising:
a left seat and a right seat provided in a vehicle cabin so as to each be movable in a vehicle front-rear direction;
an inflator that is provided at a vehicle width direction inner side portion of a seatback of one seat of the left seat or the right seat and that is configured to eject gas on actuation; and
a far side airbag that is provided at the vehicle width direction inner side portion of the seatback of the one seat, and that is configured so as to be inflated and deployed to a vehicle width direction inner side of a passenger seated in the one seat by being supplied with the gas,
wherein the far side airbag includes:
a main chamber; and
a rear deployment section that is integrally provided at the main chamber, and that is configured so as to be deployed toward a vehicle rear side past a rear face of the seatback of the one seat,
wherein the far side airbag is configured so as to overlap with a seatback of another seat of the left seat or the right seat in side view even when the other seat is disposed displaced in the vehicle front-rear direction with respect to the one seat, and
wherein the far side airbag includes a step portion in a vicinity of a contact point where contact is made with a front end of a side portion of the seatback of the other seat in plan view when the one seat is disposed at a furthest forward position and the other seat is disposed at a furthest rearward position.