Patent ID: 6168203
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
An airbag comprising first and second trapezoidal panels which are sewn together: said first panel including a first side (2) corresponding to a top of the trapezoid, a second side (4) corresponding to a base of the trapezoid, and third and fourth sides (1) and (3) corresponding to oblique sides of the trapezoid, and having a rectangular recess (5) formed in a middle of the second side (4) and first and second protrusions (6a), (6b) protruding from portions of the third and fourth sides (1), (3) near the second side (4); said second panel including a fifth side (12) corresponding to an upper side of the trapezoid, a sixth side (14) corresponding to a base of the trapezoid, and seventh and eighth sides (11), (13) corresponding to oblique sides of the trapezoid, and having a third protrusion (15) protruding from a middle of the sixth side (14); said first and second protrusions (6a), (6b) of said first panel having lateral ninth and tenth sides (7a), (7b) continuously connected to the third and fourth sides (1), (3); said second side (4) of said first panel having eleventh and twelfth sides (4a), (4b) on two sides of the rectangular recess (5); said rectangular recess (5) having thirteenth and fourteenth sides (51), (53) continuously connected to said eleventh and twelfth sides (4a), (4b), and a fifteenth side (52) connecting said thirteenth and fourteenth sides (51) and (53); said sixth side (14) of said second panel having sixteenth and seventeenth sides (14a), (14b) between two lateral eighteenth and nineteenth sides (15a), (15b) of the third protrusion (15) and the seventh and eighth sides (11), (13), respectively; said first and second panels being sewn together along the third and seventh sides (1), (11), along the first and fifth sides (2), (12), and along the fourth and eighth sides (3), (13) by a first seam (20); portions along the eleventh and twelfth sides (4a), (4b) of said first panel being sewn to each other by a second seam (30); edges of the first and second protrusions (6a), (6b) of said first panel and an edge of the third protrusion (15) of said second panel being sewn to each other by a third seam (40); portions along the lateral ninth side (7a) of said first panel and the eighteenth side (15a) and a portion along the sixteenth side (14a) of said second panel being sewn to each other by a fourth seam (50); portions along the tenth side (7b) of said first panel and the nineteenth side (15b) and a portion along the seventeenth side (14b) of said second panel being sewn to each other by the fourth seam (50); and portions along the thirteenth and fourteenth sides (51), (53) and a portion along the fifteenth side (52) of the rectangular recess (5) of said first panel being sewn to each other by a fifth seam (60).