Provided are an airbag base cloth and an airbag including same, the airbag base cloth being a flexible and lightweight airbag fabric on which films are laminated, having good rubbing resistance after withstanding heat/wet heat, and providing excellent internal pressure retention within the airbag after sewing. The airbag base cloth according to the present invention is characterized in that at least one face of fabric is coated with a multilayer film having an adhesive layer, and the average value of the warp and weft slippage resistance in the base cloth is 350 N/2.5 cm or more.

A non-coated air bag fabric according to the present invention includes a plurality of weft yarns and a plurality of warp yarns, in which the weft yarns and the warp yarns are constituted by multifilament yarns in which polyethylene terephthalate fibers are used, the number of filaments in each of the multifilament yarns ranges from 122 to 242, and a coefficient of kinetic friction of a surface of the fabric ranges from 1.15 to 1.25 or less, the coefficient of kinetic friction being calculated when a friction block in which polyvinyl chloride is used is brought into contact with the fabric placed on a stage that is rotating at a rotation speed of 663 rpm, at a load of 5 N, using a torque type friction and wear tester.

The present application relates to an airbag cushion comprising the reinforcing fabric and a method for preparing the same. According to the present application, adequate levels of tenacity, elongation, dimensional stability, impact resistance and the like required for an airbag cushion and its reinforcing fabric are simultaneously met.

An airbag fabric is excellent in slippage amount and strength in a sewn portion. The airbag fabric is made of a synthetic fiber, the fabric having a constant (load of 98 N/30 mm) elongation of 1 to 5% and having a residual strain rate of 0.1 to 1.5%, the residual strain rate being obtained when the fabric is allowed to stand still for 10 minutes from the removal of the 98 N/30 mm load after the retention of the fabric for 10 minutes while the 98 N/30 mm load is applied to the fabric. The strength in the sewn portion is preferably 1200 N or more in each of the warp and the weft.

A method for manufacturing a one-piece woven (OPW) air bag includes providing yarns and warping the yarns on at least one beam of a loom. Yarns are simultaneously woven into a fabric air bag structure having two layer portions defining both an inflatable volume and non-inflatable portions and single layer portions forming seams delimiting the inflatable volume. The air bag structure is cut to define the OPW air bag and at least one opening extending through only one layer of the two layer portions.

An airbag and a method for manufacturing the airbag. The airbag is manufactured by weaving yarns to form a one-piece woven (OPW) airbag having inflatable portions and non-inflatable portions. The non-inflatable portions are woven with varying weave patterns so as to form recesses in the surface of the airbag in the form of an indicia.

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a polyester fabric for an airbag that can not only prevent or minimize the separation of a sizing agent, which is provided to a yarn through a sizing process, during a weaving process, but can also maximize a peel strength between a textile substrate and a coating layer to be subsequently formed thereon and lower the stiffness of an airbag fabric by effectively removing the sizing agent from the textile substrate after the weaving process is completed. The method of the present invention comprises: applying a polyester-based sizing agent to a polyester yarn; manufacturing a textile substrate with the sizing agent-applied polyester yarn; removing the sizing agent from the textile substrate under an alkaline condition of pH 8 to 10; and forming a coating layer on the sizing agent-removed textile substrate in order to enhance air-tightness.

A non-coated base fabric for an airbag is made of a polyamide fiber, wherein a CV value of the dynamic air permeability by the ASTM D6476 method is 6.0% or less, a CV value of the air permeability at a differential pressure of 500 Pa by the ASTM D3886 method is 10.0% or less, and a CV value of the air permeability at a differential pressure of 20 KPa is 10.0% or less, which are measured every 20 cm in a weft direction of the base fabric.

Fabrics for inflatable airbags including one or more aperture sections are disclosed. The aperture sections can be formed in woven fabric panels of the inflatable airbags. Methods of weaving fabric panels including aperture sections for inflatable airbags are also disclosed. The aperture sections may define vents, or the aperture sections may receive a portion of an inflator, a lead wire, and/or a mounting hardware component.

A flame resistant fabric for the use in the construction of aviation airbags comprises a polyester fiber substrate which is treated with a first flame retardant. A polyurethane coating is applied to the polyester fiber substrate, which has been treated with the first flame retardant, to impart high pressure permeability resistance to the flame resistant fabric. The polyurethane coating comprises a second flame retardant to insure that the flame resistant fabric complies with Federal Aviation Requirement 25.853. The flame resistant fabric further comprises sufficient high pressure permeability resistance which is measured as a pressure of not less than about 198 kPa after five seconds from an initial inflation and pressurization to about 200 kPa, such as may be encountered in and during an inflation of aviation airbag assemblies.