KR100417382B1 - connecting device for airbag module of passenger - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is to create a groove by using a laser in the H-shaped letter of the English alphabet at a certain portion of the rear portion of the instrument panel to protect the occupant by the deployment of the air bag and to form a groove by connecting the up and down development door integrally The present invention relates to a passenger airbag connection device that can be separated up and down by the deployment force of the airbag so that when the impact is applied to the vehicle, the airbag is smoothly deployed to protect the passenger.

Description

Connecting device for airbag module of passenger}

The present invention relates to a passenger airbag connection device, and more specifically, the instrument groove is a groove using a laser in the H-shape of the English alphabet at the rear portion of the laser groove incision to protect the occupant by the deployment of the airbag Passengers who can protect the passengers by forming airbags and connecting the up-and-down deployment doors so that the airbags can be separated up and down by the deployment force of the airbags. The present invention relates to an airbag connection device.

Vehicle safety devices include active safety devices (brake, ABS, TCS, Navigation) to prevent accidents and passive belts (safty belt, airbag pretentioner) to protect passengers' wounds or lives in the event of an accident. Are classified.

The airbags of these safety devices are devices that protect the occupants by inflating the bags before the second collision in the event of a collision, and are used to prevent facial injury by being mounted on the driver's seat and the passenger seat.

Airbags include meteorites equipped with airbag modules mounted on steering wheels, collision sensors attached to the vehicle body, and turning lights that combine these with diagnostic circuits. It is equipped with a conscious system and a small bag system with a capacity of about 45L, which is called the Euroback and is equipped with a three-point belt.

In addition, there are several types of passenger seats, depending on where the passenger seat airbags are placed on the instrument panel. It is a downward installation type housed in the lower part of the instrument panel, an upper installation type in which the unit is mounted almost horizontally on the upper part of the instrument panel, and an upper installation type in which the unit is installed on the upper surface of the instrument panel and the bag is deployed upwardly inclined.

These airbags can be covered by the module cover so as not to be exposed to the outside from the inside of the vehicle, and the module cover not only stores the cushion in a certain form but also contributes to the appearance of the vehicle.

In addition, if you look at the basic condition of the airbag module, not only the bag should not be scattered when it is inflated, but also should be torn properly, and the notch-shaped groove is dug on the back of the cover so that it can always be torn to a certain shape. The characteristics of the airbag module are generally made of plastic material, and the plastic cover and the plastic steering wheel body, which are frame crystals, form the driver module assembly. The driver's seat module is attached to the steering wheel spokes. The module has a metal surface plate which serves as a mounting surface for the gas inflator, which is mounted on the module back plate. Is fitted to the wheel hub.

Subsequently, a technology related to a vehicle equipped with an airbag module has been disclosed by the present applicant in a front panel integrated airbag device of Korean Patent Application No. 1995-61915 (filed December 28, 1995).

The front panel integrated airbag device includes an airbag assembly for mounting an airbag by directly mounting the panel core of the front panel, an airbag door riveted to the airbag assembly, and a hinge determined when an airbag is operated at a lower end of the airbag door. It is to solve the inconvenience of having to change the entire front panel during A / S from the configuration provided to prevent the generation of gaps and gaps between parts due to malfunction of the airbag to improve the appearance quality of the product.

However, the conventional all-in-one panel-type airbag device is integrated with the airbag assembly and the airbag door with the front panel (instrument panel), but the lower part of the instrument panel on which the airbag module is mounted is partially folded to the front side to surround the airbag door. The other instrument panel which is in contact with the lower end of the bent instrument panel can be supported by the instrument surrounding the airbag door while being bent to a certain length, but the part of the instrument panel that is partially bent while wrapping the airbag door. As a narrow space is formed on the outside, foreign materials are laminated from the outside, which makes it difficult to deploy the airbag due to friction between the instrument panels, and a certain groove is formed in the exterior of the instrument panel where the airbag module is mounted. That has the problem.

The present invention is to solve such a conventional problem, the purpose of the instrument panel is to use the laser in the H letter form of the English alphabet in the rear portion of the laser groove incision opening portion to protect the occupant by the deployment of the air bag By forming a groove and connecting the up and down deployment door integrally so that it can be separated up and down by the deployment force of the air bag, the air bag can be deployed, and when the impact is applied to the outside, the air bag can be deployed smoothly to protect the passengers. To help.

1 is an exploded perspective view of a passenger airbag connection device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a cross-sectional view of a passenger airbag connection device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Code descriptions for the main parts of the drawings

10; instrument panel 11; laser groove incision

20; frame 21; through hole

22; coupling groove 25; anti-noise pad

30; up and down development door 31; separating groove

32; hinge portion 40, 41; bracket

50; storage frame 51; airbag module

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in order to describe in detail enough to enable those skilled in the art to easily carry out the present invention. . Other objects, features, and operational advantages, including the object, operation, and effect of the present invention, will become more apparent from the description of the preferred embodiment. The present invention is only selected and presented in order to help those skilled in the art to understand, and the technical spirit of the present invention is not necessarily limited or limited only by the embodiments, and various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be appreciated that other embodiments may be modified as well as possible. FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a passenger airbag connection device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a passenger airbag connection according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a cross-sectional configuration of the device. The present invention provides a smooth airbag deployment for the safety of passengers. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, various operations and instruments required for driving are installed at the front of the vehicle, and parts can be coupled to the rear side, and at the same time, a groove is used at the rear side by using a laser. The instrument panel 10 having the laser groove cutout 11 formed therein is coupled to the rear wall of the instrument panel 10 by vibration fusion, and fixed to the upper side and the lower side. The groove 22 and the frame 20 having the through-hole 21 formed with a passage of a predetermined size through which the outside penetrates from the outside is connected. The laser groove cutting opening of the instrument panel 10 is connected. (11) is characterized in that the groove has the shape of the letter "H" of the English alphabet. It is coupled to the rear end of the frame 20 can be developed to the front side by an external impact. The hinge portion 32 is integrally connected to the upper portion thereof, and a groove is formed in the transverse direction at the center thereof, so that the separation groove 31 is formed to be separated up and down by the deployment force of the airbag so that the airbag can be deployed. The up-and-down development door 30 is connected to each other. The separation groove 31 of the up-and-down development door 30 has a configuration in which a groove is formed of “V” of the English alphabet. The frame 20 The bracket has a configuration in which the brackets 40 and 41 are coupled to each of the upper and lower rear ends so as to be assembled and connected to the up and down deployment door 30. The brackets 40 and 41 are fastening means made of bolts and nuts. It has a configuration to be fixed to the storage frame 50 is equipped with an air bag module 51 therein. In addition, the frame 20 is fused to prevent the impact sound due to the impact during deployment of the air bag on the lower end Let Paul The anti-noise pad 25 of the polyurethane foam is connected. The storage frame 50 may include a storage frame 50 before the airbag module 51 filled with gas to inflate the airbag is inflated. The airbag of the airbag module 51 is used as a general technical configuration to maintain a proper reaction force. The inside is coated with neoprene or silicon to maintain airtightness, and a vent hole (not shown) to allow gas from a gas generating means (not shown) to flow into the inside and expand by gas pressure. The gas generating means is the same as the general technical concept in which the collision sensor (not shown) is connected. When first started from an electronic unit and ignited by current from a storage capacitor or battery, the electrical signal is converted into thermal energy to ignite the ignition material (generally a sodium oxide mixture in pill form). Ignite decomposition products are residues of gases, sodium, metals, etc. This decomposition product is caught by a filter in the gas generator and nitrogen gas enters the airbag. All of these operations have a basic configuration that occurs within about 0.05 seconds from the start of the gas generating means received from the start pulse to the fully inflating of the airbag. The operation and effect of the present invention thus constructed will be described in detail as follows. The airbag is designed to smoothly deploy airbags for the safety of passengers. As shown in Figs. 1 to 2, the passengers are protected from a collision accident occurring within a range of ± 30 ° in the direction of travel of the vehicle. The airbag module 51 is installed in the instrument panel 10 located in the auxiliary seat in front of the vehicle interior to prevent direct collision with the devices, so when the vehicle collides, the airbag is deployed while pushing the upper and lower deployment doors 30. It is to ensure that the safety of the instrument panel 10 is also the airbag module 51 of the housing frame 50 is desired that The frame 20 is vibrated and fused so as to be deployed, and the storage frame 50 in which the airbag module 51 is mounted is connected to and fixed to the brackets 40 and 41 already assembled. In this case, the housing frame 50 pushes the vertical development door 30 forward while the airbag module 51 mounted therein is expanded to receive the gas pressure of the gas generating means instantaneously by an external impact. 10) is deployed to protect the occupant with the inflated air bag. Here, the up-and-down deployment door 30 is to deploy the airbag in the airbag module 51 of the storage frame 50, wherein the airbag is inflated Impact energy caused by the impact hitting the separation groove 31 formed in the vertical deployment door 30, the separation groove 31 is torn momentarily, the vertical development door 30 is divided up and down, and the airbag is a through hole of the frame 20 Pass through 21 It is directed to the instrument panel 10. Such an air bag is divided into the upper and lower deployment door 30 by the inflating force to cut up and down, and at the same time the laser groove incision formed by the "H" of the instrument panel 10 which is vibrated and fused ( 11) is cut and the airbag is deployed to protect the passengers.

In this way, the present invention acts as the instrument panel to protect the occupant by the deployment of the air bag to form a groove by using a laser in the H-shape of the English alphabet at a certain portion of the rear portion of the laser groove cutout and integrated up and down development door By connecting so that the airbag can be deployed up and down by the deployment force of the airbag is deployed, when the impact is applied to the outside airbag is smoothly deployed has the effect of protecting the passengers.

Claims (3)

It is mounted on the front of the vehicle, and various kinds of operation and instruments necessary for driving are installed, and the instrument panel 10 allows the parts to be coupled to the rear side, and is vibrated and fixed to the rear wall of the instrument panel 10 and is fixed to the rear. Frame 20 having a coupling groove 22 formed to couple the fastening means to the upper side and the lower side and a through hole 21 formed with a passage of a predetermined size through the outside in the center and the frame 20, A space for accommodating the airbags of the airbag module 51 mounted inside the brackets 40 and 41 coupled to the upper and lower ends of the rear end side 20 and the brackets 40 and 41 respectively. In the vehicle in which the storage frame 50 is formed, the instrument panel 10 is dissected so that the occupant can be protected by the deployment of the airbag. The hinge groove 32 is integrally connected to the upper portion of the laser groove incision 11 and the upper portion of the frame 20 to be coupled to the rear end of the frame 20 so as to be developed forward by an external impact. Passenger airbag connecting device is formed by forming a groove is connected to the vertical deployment door 30 is formed with a separation groove 31 is formed to be separated up and down by the deployment force of the airbag to allow the deployment of the airbag. The passenger airbag connection of claim 1, wherein the vertical deployment door 30 is formed by a V-shaped groove of an English alphabet alphanet so that the airbag can be deployed while the separation groove 31 is torn up and down when the airbag is deployed. Device. 3. The passenger airbag connecting device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the up-and-down developing door (30) is a thermoplastic olefin.