US 12,172,593 B2
Occupant protection device
Isao Kobayashi, Okazaki (JP); Masato Kunisada, Nagoya (JP); and Kazushi Furumaya, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/384,100.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-174864 (JP), filed on Oct. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0140343 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. B60R 21/0136 (2006.01); B60R 21/231 (2011.01)
CPC B60R 21/0136 (2013.01) [B60R 21/23138 (2013.01); B60R 2021/23146 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An occupant protection device comprising:
a first side airbag disposed in a first door at an outer side in a vehicle width direction of a first seat;
a second side airbag disposed in a second door at an outer side in the vehicle width direction of a second seat, the second seat being adjacent to the first seat in the vehicle width direction; and
a far-side airbag disposed at an inner side in the vehicle width direction of the first seat and closer to the first seat than the second seat; wherein:
when a side collision toward the first seat side is detected, deployment of the far-side airbag is started after a first delay time has elapsed after deployment of the first side airbag is started,
when a side collision toward the second seat side is detected, deployment of the far-side airbag is started after a second delay time has elapsed after deployment of the second side airbag is started, and
the first delay time is twice or more and four times or less the second delay time.