Patent ID: 11958431
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 10:
11. An assembly comprising:
a vehicle body having a body side;
a first seat and a second seat adjacent the body side, one of the first seat and the second seat being vehicle-forward of the other of the first seat and the second seat;
the first seat and the second seat each including a seat bottom, a seatback extending upwardly from the seat bottom, and an occupant-seating area defined by the seat bottom and the seatback;
a head airbag mounted to the seatback of the first seat and inflatable over the occupant-seating area of the first seat; and
a knee airbag mounted to the body side and inflatable from the body side to an inflated position, the knee airbag in the inflated position being between the seat bottom of the first seat and the seat bottom of the second seat;
the knee airbag in the inflated position having two lobes, one of the lobes being adjacent the seat bottom of the first seat and the other of the lobes being adjacent the seat bottom of the second seat;
the knee airbag including a hub between the two lobes, the two lobes and the hub sharing a common inflation chamber; and
the lobes having a larger cross-section than the hub in a plane parallel to a cross-vehicle direction.