Patent ID: 7686326
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A low risk deployment passenger airbag system having passenger airbag modules respectively mounted to an upper surface and a front surface of an instrument panel, wherein at least one of the passenger airbag modules comprises a slim type passenger airbag module, comprising: a box-shaped airbag housing, having an opening in a front end thereof, and a flange provided around the opening of the box-shaped airbag housing; a disk type inflator, an upper end of which is inserted into the airbag housing through a circular insert hole formed through a bottom of the airbag housing, which is perpendicular to the opening; a cushion stored in the airbag housing in a folded state such that the cushion is deployed towards a passenger seat through the opening by deployment gas discharged from the disk type inflator; and a retainer fastening both an inlet part of the cushion and a ring-shaped flange, provided around a circumferential outer surface of the disk type inflator, to the bottom of the airbag housing using a locking bolt, the retainer having a circular through hole, through which the upper end of the disk type inflator passes.