US 12,083,979 B2
Rear-seat airbag and rear-seat airbag apparatus
Isamu Nagasawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/098,888.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-023302 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0256927 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 21/20 (2011.01); B60N 2/00 (2006.01); B60R 21/231 (2011.01)
CPC B60R 21/20 (2013.01) [B60N 2/002 (2013.01); B60R 21/231 (2013.01); B60R 2021/23107 (2013.01); B60R 2021/23153 (2013.01); B60R 2021/23169 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rear-seat airbag configured to expand and deploy from a lower portion of a center console of a vehicle toward a center portion of a row of rear seats,
wherein the rear-seat airbag is configured to when the rear-seat airbag expands and deploys to provide a point of intersection of virtual loci of forward movements of a head, a chest, and knees of a passenger sitting in the center portion of the row of rear seats in response to an impact generated by a collision of the vehicle that coincides with a center of gravity of the rear-seat airbag.