Patent ID: 9290151
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: B60R

Claim Text:
1. An occupant protection system for a vehicle, the occupant protection system comprising: right and left vehicle seats disposed adjacent to each other in a vehicle width direction and adapted to approach each other in the vehicle width direction due to an impact at a time of a side collision; right and left inflators each mounted in a center-side side portion, as viewed in the vehicle width direction, of each of seat backs of the right and left vehicle seats, each of the inflators being adapted to be activated at the time of the side collision so as to generate gas; and right and left far-side airbags each mounted in the center-side side portion, as viewed in the vehicle width direction, of each of the seat backs, each of the far-side airbags being adapted to inflate and deploy when the gas is supplied from a corresponding one of the inflators, each of the far-side airbags being partitioned into a front bag portion that protrudes toward a vehicle forward side of the center-side side portion when the airbag is in an inflated and deployed state, and a rear bag portion located on a vehicle rearward side of the front bag portion, the rear bag portion being adapted to have an internal pressure higher than an internal pressure of the front bag portion when the airbag is inflated and deployed, the rear bag portion of each of the far-side airbags being adapted to be compressed between the seat backs when the vehicle seats approach each other.