Patent ID: 9566935
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B60R

Claim:
1. An airbag assembly for disposition proximate a roof of a vehicle to shield a vehicle occupant from impacting at least one lateral surface of the vehicle, the airbag assembly comprising: an inflatable curtain airbag having a stowed configuration for disposition proximate the roof of the vehicle and a deployed configuration into which the inflatable curtain airbag deploys downward between the vehicle occupant and the at least one lateral surface of the vehicle, the inflatable curtain airbag comprising: wherein, in the stowed configuration, the inflatable curtain airbag is folded longitudinally at a first stowed fold line such that the second protection zone overlies a portion of the first protection zone; wherein, in the stowed configuration, the first attachment feature secures the second non-inflating region of the second protection zone to the first non-inflating region of the first protection zone to keep the second protection zone folded rearward until deployment such that, during deployment, the first attachment feature releases the second protection zone to allow the second protection zone to unfold one of forward and rearward of the first protection zone.