Patent ID: 6168190
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
Apparatus comprising: a truck cab having a rear wall; a seat for an occupant of said truck cab, said seat including a seat back having an upper end adjacent to said rear wall of said truck cab; and an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device inflatable to a deployed condition in which said protection device adjoins said rear wall of said truck cab above said upper end of said seat back so as to transmit crash forces from the occupant's head to said rear wall of said truck cab, whereby said protection device and said rear wall of said truck cab together provide crash reaction forces that restrain movement of the occupant's head toward said rear wall of said truck cab, and wherein said seat back is spaced from said rear wall of said truck cab to define a gap between said upper end of said seat back and said rear wall of said truck cab, said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device being stored beneath said gap and being deployable upward through said gap.