Patent ID: 9643562
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B60R

Claim:
1. An airbag assembly with passive adaptive venting, comprising: an airbag cushion to receive inflation gas from an inflator and thereby expand to deploy from a housing mounted in a vehicle, the airbag cushion, when deployed, to provide a rearward face to receive an occupant of the vehicle, a forward face to contact a solid vehicle surface within a passenger compartment of the vehicle, and a lateral face extending between the rearward face and the forward face; and a set of vents disposed through a panel of the airbag cushion, wherein the set of vents, in a first deployed state of the airbag cushion, is to be positioned on the lateral face of the airbag cushion adjacent the solid vehicle surface and, in a second deployed state of the airbag cushion, to be positioned on the forward face of the airbag cushion to be obstructed by the solid vehicle surface in a second state of the airbag cushion, wherein the airbag cushion is more compressed in the second deployed state than in the first deployed state.