WO2014096266A2 - Seitenairbag für kraftfahrzeuge - Google Patents
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- a side airbag of the aforementioned type which serves to protect vehicle occupants of a motor vehicle, comprises an airbag, which is intended to be arranged on a vehicle seat so that it can be deployed laterally next to the vehicle occupant to protect a vehicle occupant located on the vehicle seat, and a gas generator for Fill the airbag with a gas so that it unfolds.
- the side airbag serves to protect the vehicle occupant from collision with elements of the vehicle interior or with other vehicle occupants.
- the side airbag is designed to protect the head and thorax of the vehicle occupant during an accident and to keep the vehicle occupant as possible on the vehicle seat.
- the invention is based on the problem to provide a side airbag with an optimized retention effect with a simple design.
- the gas bag and the gas generator are formed and provided to be arranged on the vehicle seat such that the gas bag is supported at least in the deployed state on a back frame of the vehicle seat.
- the airbag can be in direct contact with the backrest frame and / or be supported on the backrest frame via a further backrest element, in particular a backrest cushion.
- the gas bag in the deployed state can be supported over a substantial part of its vertical extent (ie along the vertical vehicle axle / z-axis, based on the state installed in a motor vehicle) or even substantially over its entire extent on the back frame of the motor vehicle.
- the gas bag is advantageously supported transversely to the vehicle longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle (along the so-called horizontal transverse vehicle axis / y-axis) on the backrest or the backrest frame.
- the gas bag can also be supported against the forward direction of travel (along the so-called vehicle longitudinal axis / x-axis) on the backrest or the backrest frame.
- the backrest cheek and the vehicle occupant may be separated by the gas bag.
- the airbag can be supported on a (side) backrest cheek of the backrest when installed in the intended manner in a motor vehicle transversely to the vehicle longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle.
- For additional support of the gas bag against the forward direction of travel can serve a back part of the vehicle seat.
- the gas generator for example, have studs. And it can be provided in or on the back frame holes that serve to accommodate the studs. For example, the studs protrude through the holes and cooperate with fasteners to fix the side airbag to the back frame.
- the fasteners interact, for example by positive engagement or frictional connection with the studs.
- the gas bag may (in the inflated, unfolded state), in particular on a side of the backrest frame of the vehicle seat facing the vehicle interior, For example, on an inside back cheek of the seat, (transverse to the forward direction) support.
- This can be prevented, for example, that commutes during an accident, the upper body of a vehicle occupant over the vehicle centerline addition, since the filled, laterally positioned airbag counteracts.
- the reclining-frame-side support of the airbag reduces the likelihood of undesired interaction of the airbag with other vehicle elements, for example with the center console of the vehicle.
- the airbag By the airbag is deployed as close as possible to the vehicle occupant in the deployed and intended in the vehicle or in a vehicle seat, a retention effect is generated early when filling with gas, so that the vehicle occupant absorb only relatively little speed before hitting the airbag can.
- the gas bag may be sealed so that it has a service life of at least 5 seconds after being filled with gas. To achieve such a service life, the gas bag must be almost completely sealed over a certain period of time. Such a long service life allows the side airbag to provide good protection even in rollover crash situations.
- the invention can make use of the fact that the gas cools after filling the gas bag. For example, is achieved by cooling that the gas pressure regularly 5 to 10 seconds after filling only 1, 4 to 1, 6 bar relative to the atmospheric pressure and the pressure has dropped one minute after filling substantially below 1 bar.
- the gas generator is connected via an airbag connection to the gas bag.
- the gas bag connection can be formed, for example, by at least one separate element which is fixed to the gas bag envelope, in particular on the side of the gas bag envelope facing away from the interior of the gas bag, from the gas bag envelope enclosing the interior of the gas bag.
- the gas bag connection is advantageously designed as a flexible element, which is made for example of a textile fabric. This makes it possible that gas generators of different types can be connected to a gas bag using a gas bag connection of the same type.
- the gas bag connection can also be designed such that it wraps around the gas generator.
- the gas bag connection and the gas bag surround the gas generator in a form-fitting manner and fix in the y direction (ie, along the horizontal transverse drive axis extending transversely to the direction of travel of the motor vehicle).
- the gas generator can be trapped by the airbag pressure in the airbag connection.
- the gas bag connection can be fixed by means of a seam on the gas bag.
- it may further be provided to seal the seam on the inside of the gas bag.
- a silicone layer is applied to the seam connection for this purpose.
- the silicone layer may also be heat treated for curing.
- the silicone layer may additionally be covered with a film.
- This film serves in particular during the fixation of the gas bag connection to the gas bag envelope as a protective film to prevent the gas bag layers stick together at the seam connection.
- the gas bag connection can be kept so small by the dimensions that the seam connection is arranged in close proximity to the gas generator. As a result, a particularly stable fixation of the gas generator and of the gas bag (in particular also in the unfolded) state is effected. But it is also possible that the gas bag connection is made comparatively large and the seam connection is arranged further away from the gas generator.
- the seam connection for securing the gas bag connection to the gas bag can advantageously coincide with at least part of this circumferential seam. Additional seams and their sealing are then not required.
- the gas bag connection can be formed at least partially from gas bag layers, which also serve to form the gas bag envelope.
- a peripheral seam which connects the gas bag layers to one another to form the gas bag envelope can separate the gas bag connection from the actual gas bag envelope enclosing the interior of the gas bag. That is, the gas generator can via a Gas bag connection to be connected to the gas bag, which is formed by the intended for forming the airbag shell gas bag layers and which is separated by the peripheral seam that connects the gas bag layers together, from the part of the gas bag layers that form the interior of the airbag cover.
- the gas bag connection can have passage openings, which are provided for fixing the gas generator.
- stud bolts can reach through the passage openings, so that the airbag connection between the gas generator and the backrest frame of the vehicle seat can be jammed in the state installed as intended in a vehicle seat.
- the gas bag has a channel with a gas bag opening, via which the gas flowing from the gas generator is conducted into the gas bag.
- a filling hose can be provided.
- the filling hose can be introduced into the channel and the gas generator in the filling tube surrounded by the channel.
- the gas flowing from the gas generator is collected and passed along a predetermined direction in the gas bag.
- the attachment means is for example at least one hose clamp.
- the filling hose can be made of a textile fabric. As a result, weight and cost can be reduced in comparison to metal tubes, which serve to divert the gas flow.
- the gas bag can have tear seams, which subdivide the gas bag below a pressure limit into several sections and tear when reaching or exceeding this pressure limit. After rupturing the tear seams, the entire interior of the gas bag can be filled with gas.
- the gas generator may be arranged in such a way to the tear seams that the gas from the gas generator first flows into a section which corresponds to a thorax section of the gas bag in the intended installed condition of the side airbag to a vehicle seat. Only after tearing the tear seams is another section, for example the so-called head section of the gas bag, filled with gas.
- the head section of the airbag can be transferred from the folded state to the unfolded state with little space-consuming movements and then be filled with gas.
- the entire gas bag can be completely filled with gas within 30 to 50 ms, preferably within 30 to 40 ms.
- the tear seams can also be designed such that they divide the gas bag into more than two sections. Such an arrangement may be useful when deployment of the airbag in smaller increments is required.
- the tear seams are designed, for example, as adhesive seams, in particular as silicone adhesive seams.
- a pocket can be provided which receives the gas bag in the folded state and which is arranged in a recess of the backrest.
- the bag also serves to direct the gas bag in a defined direction when filling with gas.
- the bag encloses the gas bag, at least as long as the gas bag is folded.
- the gas bag may tear the bag.
- the torn-open pocket can ensure that the gas bag is preferably deployed in the direction of a portion of the backrest that allows the gas bag to emerge from the backrest.
- a section has, for example, a weakened structure which is less tear-resistant than other sections of the backrest.
- the weakened structure may be a seat tear line to which the torn bag deflects the deployed airbag and through which the airbag may then exit the vehicle seat.
- Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of a side airbag with a deployed
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of the side airbag of FIG. 1 from a second perspective
- FIG. Fig. 3 is a schematic representation of the side airbag of Figure 1 with a
- Gas bag connection according to a first embodiment for connecting a gas generator and the gas bag
- FIG. 4 shows a cross section through the side airbag from FIG. 3 along the line IV--
- Fig. 5 is a schematic representation of the airbag cover of the airbag of FIG.
- Fig. 6 is a schematic representation of the side airbag of Figure 1 with a
- Gas bag connection according to a second embodiment for connecting the gas generator and the gas bag
- Fig. 7 is a schematic representation of the side airbag of Figure 1 with a
- FIG. 8 shows a schematic representation of the side airbag from FIG. 1 with an inflated airbag in the intended installed state with tear seams;
- Fig. 9 shows a cross section of the side airbag of Figure 1 with a deployed
- Fig. 10 shows a cross section of the side airbag of Figure 1 with a deployed
- Airbag in the intended state installed in a motor vehicle seat, wherein the side airbag is attached according to a second variant of the vehicle seat;
- Fig. 1 1 is a schematic representation of the side airbag of Figure 1 with a
- FIG. 12 is a cross section of a side airbag with one according to a first
- Fig. 13 is a cross section of a side airbag with one according to a second
- Variant folded gas bag in the intended manner installed in a motor vehicle seat condition
- Fig. 14 shows a cross section of the side airbag of Figure 1 with a deployed
- Airbag installed as intended in a motor vehicle seat
- FIG. 15 is a cross-sectional view of the side airbag of the embodiment of FIG.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 a side airbag 2 according to an embodiment of the invention is shown schematically in the state installed as intended in a motor vehicle from two different perspectives.
- the side airbag 2 comprises an airbag 4 and a gas generator 6.
- the airbag 4 is shown in Figures 1 and 2 in a deployed (gas filled) state and extends in a plane substantially parallel to a vehicle longitudinal axis x and a vertical vehicle axis z and perpendicular to a horizontal vehicle transverse axis y of the motor vehicle. It has an airbag cover 8 which encloses an interior 10 of the airbag 4 (see FIG. 4).
- the gas bag 4 and the gas generator 6 are arranged on a vehicle seat 12.
- the gas bag 4 and the gas generator 6 are arranged on the vehicle seat 12 such that the gas bag 4 is supported in the deployed state on a backrest 1 1 of the vehicle seat 12.
- the support is carried out in the embodiment substantially over a vertical extent of the gas bag 4 (based on the intended installed in a vehicle state).
- the gas bag 4 is supported on the back 11 1 essentially over its entire vertical extent (extension along the vertical vehicle axis z).
- the gas bag 4 is supported on a vehicle interior facing side of the backrest 1 1 of the vehicle seat 12.
- the gas bag 4 is supported laterally with its side facing away from the vehicle occupant (along the horizontal vehicle transverse axis y) relative to the state of the associated seat installed in a motor vehicle on a back cheek 13 of the backrest 1 1 off.
- the gas bag 4 is supported by that side directly on a backrest frame 14, which is part of the basic structure of the backrest 11.
- a support of the airbag (along the vehicle longitudinal axis x) on a back portion 15 (shown without the associated back support structure) of the vehicle seat 12.
- the airbag 4 is used to protect a vehicle occupant located on the vehicle seat 12 and is laterally next to the Vehicle occupants deployable.
- the gas generator 6 is used to fill the gas bag 4 with a gas, so that the gas bag 4 unfolds.
- the side airbag 2 comprises an airbag connection 50, via which the gas generator 6 and the airbag 4 are connected to one another (see FIG. 3).
- the gas bag connection 50 is embodied as a separate element from the gas bag envelope 8.
- the gas bag connection 50 is flexible and, for example, made of textile fabric, namely according to a variant of the same tissue as the airbag cover. 8
- the gas bag connection 50 wraps around the gas generator 6.
- the gas bag connection 50 is advantageously placed around the gas generator 6 such that the gas generator 6 in the deployed state of the gas bag 4 by the gas bag connection 50 against the gas bag 4 is pressed.
- a relative fixation of the gas generator 6 and the gas bag 4 in the direction of the vehicle transverse axis y is achieved.
- the gas generator 6 stud bolts 52 (see Figures 3, 4 and 6), which are provided to attach the side airbag 2 on the back frame 14.
- the stud bolts 52 are arranged on one side of the gas generator 6, which is remote from the gas bag 4.
- the stud bolts 52 are, as shown in Figures 9 and 10, attached to the back frame 14 of the vehicle seat 12. For this purpose, 14 holes are provided in the backrest frame, through which the stud bolts 52 protrude.
- the studs 52 cooperate with fasteners 53 to fix the side airbag 2 to the back frame 14.
- the fastening elements 53 cooperate with the stud bolts 52, for example, by positive locking or frictional connection.
- the stud bolts 52 pass through a section 14a of the backrest frame 14 which extends substantially parallel to the vehicle longitudinal axis x of the motor vehicle. In this case, the stud bolts 52 extend transversely to the vehicle longitudinal axis x of the motor vehicle.
- the stud bolts 52 pass through a section 14b of the back frame 14, which extends essentially transversely to the vehicle longitudinal axis x of the motor vehicle. In this case, the stud bolts 52 extend parallel to the vehicle longitudinal axis x of the motor vehicle.
- the gas bag connection 50 is fixed by means of a seam connection 54 on the side facing away from the interior 10 of the gas bag 4 side of the airbag cover 8.
- the seam connection 54 is covered with a silicone layer on the side of the airbag cover 8 facing the interior 10 of the airbag 4 (not shown).
- the silicone layer may in turn be covered with a foil (not shown).
- the film is a non-adhesive plastic film, which does not change with heat in terms of their adhesive behavior. It is made for example of a polyolefin plastic.
- the gas bag connection 50 is formed from a flat fabric whose size substantially corresponds to the peripheral surface of the gas generator 6.
- the planar fabric is dimensioned so that it can surround the gas generator 6 together with the gas bag envelope 8 and can also be fastened to the gas bag envelope 8.
- the planar fabric of the gas bag connection 50 is essentially rectangular (regardless of the shape of the gas bag envelope 8).
- the seam connection 54 comprises one seam each on the left side and the right side of the gas generator 6 and is arranged in the immediate vicinity of the gas generator 6.
- the volume of the airbag connection 50 and the airbag cover. 8 is thus substantially corresponding to the volume of the gas generator. 6
- the latter is formed from a flat fabric, the size and shape of which depend, inter alia, on the airbag cover 8.
- the second embodiment of the gas bag connection 50 makes use of the fact that the gas bag envelope 8 regularly comprises at least two gas bag layers 56 which are connected to one another via at least one circumferential seam 58 in order to close the inner space 10 of the gas bag envelope 8.
- the peripheral seam 58 is sealed by a silicone layer.
- the second embodiment of the gas bag connection 50 essentially differs from the first embodiment in that the seam connection 54 is not arranged in the immediate vicinity of the gas generator 6, but coincides with at least part of the circumferential seam 58.
- the seams arranged on the left side and on the right side of the gas generator 6 coincide.
- the seam connection 54 at least part of the circumferential seam 58 is selected, which is arranged relative to the gas generator 6 in such a way that shear forces occur in the deployed state of the gas bag 4, ensuring a relative fixation of the gas generator 6 and the gas bag 4.
- the volume which is enclosed by the gas bag connection 50 and the gas bag envelope 8 essentially corresponds to the volume of the corresponding section of the gas bag envelope 8.
- the gas bag connection 50 is formed from gas bag layers 56 of the gas bag 4.
- the circumferential seam 58b separates the gas bag connection 50 from the part of the gas bag layers 56 which surround the interior 10 of the gas bag envelope 8.
- the gas bag connection 50 is formed as an elongate shaped strip of the gas bag layers 56 whose length and width substantially correspond to the length and width of the gas generator 6.
- the gas bag connection 50 comprises passage openings 51, which are provided for receiving the stud bolts 52 of the gas generator 6.
- the side airbag 2 may further comprise a filling hose 60 (see FIG. 7).
- the filling hose 60 has a first end 62 and a second end 64 and is provided for guiding the gas flowing out of the gas generator 6 along a predetermined direction into the gas bag 4.
- the filling hose 60 is arranged in a channel 65 of the gas bag 4.
- the channel 65 comprises an airbag opening 66, through which the gas generator 6 projects into the channel 65.
- the filling hose 60 receives the gas generator and is in fluid communication with the gas bag 4 in that the filling hose 60 protrudes with its second end 64 into the gas bag 4.
- FIG. 7 shows by way of example a side airbag 2 with an airbag connection 50 according to the second embodiment.
- the fill tube 60 may also be combined with a gas bag tie 50 according to one of the other embodiments.
- the filling hose 60 is made of a textile fabric.
- the tissue is the tissue from which the gas bag envelope 8 is made.
- a fastening means 68 is provided at or in the vicinity of the first end 62 of the filling hose 60 in order to connect the filling hose 60 in a gas-tight manner to the gas generator 6.
- the fastening means 68 is designed as a hose clamp.
- the side airbag 2 may further include one or more tear seams 70 (see FIG. 8) that interconnect the gas bag layers 56 and extend within the area bounded by the circumferential seams 58.
- the tear seams 70 are arranged such that they can divide the interior 10 of the gas bag 4 in the unfolded state into two or more sections.
- the connection between the gas bag layers 56 by the tear seams 70 is not permanent, but exists only below a predetermined pressure limit. If the pressure limit value is reached or exceeded during filling of the gas bag 4 with a gas, the tear seams 70 tear open.
- the tear seams 70 are designed as silicone adhesive seams. Two tear seams 70 are shown by way of example in FIG.
- the side airbag 2 may further include a pocket 76 (see FIG. 12). The pocket 76 serves to receive the gas bag 4 in the folded state and serves for putting in addition to direct the gas bag 4 when filling with a gas in a defined direction.
- the gas bag 4 is sealed in such a way that it has a service life of at least three seconds, in particular of at least five seconds, after a specific (specifiable) internal pressure in the interior 10 of the gas bag 4 has been achieved when filling with gas.
- FIGS. 12 and 13 show two possibilities for the arrangement of the folded gas bag 4 in the backrest cheek 13 of a vehicle seat 12.
- the stud bolts 52 by way of example (with respect to the vehicle longitudinal axis x) in the rear part pass through the section 14a of the backrest frame 14, which extends substantially parallel to the vehicle longitudinal axis x of the motor vehicle.
- the stud bolts 52 may pass through the back frame 14 at other locations.
- the gas bag 4 is folded into a bundle and disposed between the back part 15 of the backrest 1 1 and the back frame 14.
- the folded gas bag 4 is stowed in a pocket 76, which directs the gas bag 4 during deployment on a seat tear line 80, through which the gas bag 4 can then emerge from the vehicle seat 12.
- the pocket 76 rests directly against the backrest frame 14.
- a first section of the gas bag 4, which faces a second section of the gas bag 4, to which the gas generator 6 is fastened, is rolled up.
- the airbag 4 thus rolled up extends (relative to the state of the side airbag installed in a motor vehicle) substantially parallel to the vertical vehicle axis z.
- the airbag 4 rolled up in this way envelops the backrest frame 14 in a U-shape.
- the gas bag 4 extends relative to the vehicle longitudinal axis x from the point at which it is attached to the back frame 14, toward the seat tear line 80 in the backrest cheek 13, from where the gas bag 4 reverses its direction following the outer shape of the backrest cheek 13.
- This convolution allows, for example, to distribute the volume of the folded gas bag 4 evenly in the backrest cheek 13.
- one or the other arrangement can be selected.
- FIG. 14 essentially corresponds to the embodiment of FIG. 9.
- the inflated gas bag 4 is indirectly supported on the back frame 14 of the vehicle seat 12.
- a part of a backrest cushion of the backrest cheek 13 is provided between the backrest frame 14 and the inflated airbag 4.
- the indirect support of the gas bag 4 is thus indirectly via the backrest cushion of the backrest cheek 13 on the back frame 14th
- Figure 15 the embodiment of Figure 14 is shown, wherein the gas bag 4 is in a folded state.
- the folded gas bag 4 is stowed in a pocket 76, which directs the gas bag 4 during deployment on a seat tear line 80, through which the gas bag 4 can then emerge from the vehicle seat 12.
- a part of the backrest cushion of the backrest cheek 13 is provided.
- the airbag connection 50 is positioned on the side facing away from the interior 10 for fixing the airbag connection 50 to the airbag cover 8 (as close as possible to the gas-tight connection) and fixed there by means of a seam connection 54. Since the seam connection 54 in this form is not yet gas-tight with sufficient certainty, the seam connection 54 on the interior 10 facing side of the airbag cover 8 is covered with a silicone layer.
- the silicone layer can be covered with a plastic film (eg made of a polyolefin plastic), in particular in order to prevent the silicone (which in particular is not a thermosetting silicone) from being undesirable on areas of the airbag skin 8 or on the gas bag adhering components interacts.
- the silicone layer can be heat treated (eg by contact with a heating device). As a result of the heat treatment, the silicone melts and can distribute itself uniformly on and in the seam connection 54.
- a thermosetting silicone HCS - hot curing silicone
- the result is a gas-tight fastening of the airbag connection 50 to the airbag cover 8.
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