Patent ID: 8328231
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A side airbag device used in a seat for a vehicle, wherein the seat includes: a seat frame; a pad having a receiving space and a slit and attached to the seat frame; and a skin having a sewn portion and covering a surface of the pad, the side airbag device comprising: a gas generator; an airbag attached to the seat frame, received in the receiving space and adapted to be inflated and deployed outwardly from the receiving space through the slit by a gas from the gas generator, to break the sewn portion; an inner connection member having an inner end portion fixed to the seat frame and an outer end portion fixed to the sewn portion, the inner connection member being installed to extend through a region inward of the airbag in a widthwise direction of the vehicle, and formed with a clip hole in the inner end portion thereof; an outer connection member having an inner end portion fixed to the seat frame and an outer end portion fixed to the sewn portion, the outer connection member being installed to extend through a region outward of the airbag in the widthwise direction of the vehicle, and formed with a clip hole in the inner end portion thereof; a clip inserted in the respective clip holes of the inner and outer connection members and a clip-locking hole provided in the seat frame, under a condition that the inner end portion of the inner connection member and the inner end portion of the outer connection member are overlapped on each other to allow the clip hole of the inner connection member and the clip hole of the outer connection member to be aligned with each other, wherein the clip is locked to the clip-locking hole; and a temporary locking hook provided on the inner end portion of one of the inner and outer connection members and adapted to allow the inner end portion to be temporarily locked to the seat frame in a position where the clip hole of the inner end portion is aligned with the clip-locking hole.