A restraint system includes an instrument panel having an exterior panel directed downward, an airbag having an uninflated position behind the exterior panel and having a left chamber and a right chamber, a left inflator coupled to the left chamber, a right inflator coupled to the right chamber, and a controller programmed to selectively activate each inflator to one of a high output and a low output based on an impact angle.

An airbag apparatus for a vehicle may include first and second inflators each configured to provide an inflation gas; a main cushion connected to the first inflator and deploying toward a passenger when the first inflator operates; a sub cushion connected to the second inflator and deploying along a first side surface of the main cushion to be overlappingly deployed with the main cushion at the first side surface and the front surface of the main cushion when the second inflator operates; and a controller configured to operate the first inflator to deploy the main cushion when a vehicle collision is detected, and configured to operate both of the first inflator and the second inflator to deploy both of the main cushion and the sub cushion when the vehicle collision is detected as an oblique collision at a least a predetermined angle.

Disclosed are airbag integrated moving display and a control method where the airbag-integrated display includes a display movable to a forward or rearward position according to a driving mode of a vehicle, and an airbag mounted to the rear of the display and being configured to move along with a movement of the display, vary a level of inflation of the airbag based on at least one of a position of the display or a distance from a driver of the vehicle.

An airbag device for a front passenger seat includes an airbag, two inflators each for feeding the airbag with an inflation gas, a case which holds the airbag and inflators, and a retainer which mounts the airbag and inflators on the case. One of the two inflators is a potentially-influential inflator whose inflation gas may influence the other inflator. The retainer includes a holding plate section which is disposed on an inner surface of the airbag, two insert openings for receiving main bodies of the two inflators, and a shielding wall which rises out of a position of the holding plate section between the two insert openings and extends to a vicinity of a height of the top end plane of the main body of the potentially-influential inflator. The shielding wall shields the other inflator from an inflation gas emitted by the potentially-influential inflator.

The present invention provides a gas generator, including an outer shell housing having a top plate, a bottom plate and a circumferential wall provided with a gas discharge port, a combustion chamber accommodating a gas generating agent, a cylindrical filter and an ignition device disposed in a cup-shaped ignition device chamber housing, the bottom surface of the cup-shaped ignition device chamber housing facing the top plate and an end surface of the opening thereof abutting against the bottom plate, a length from an upper end surface to a lower end surface of the cylindrical filter being shorter than a distance from the top plate to the bottom plate of the outer shell housing, and the cylindrical filter being disposed such that the upper end surface faces the top plate and the lower end surface faces the combustion chamber, a cup-shaped cover member which has a bottom surface, a circumferential wall and an opening, further being disposed between the cup-shaped ignition device chamber housing and the cylindrical filter, an outer circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the cover member abutting against an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter, the bottom surface of the ignition device chamber housing being covered, from outside, by the bottom surface of the cover member, and a gap being formed between an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the cover member and an outer circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the ignition device chamber housing.

A variable control apparatus for an airbag of a vehicle includes: a plurality of tethers each of which having one side coupled to a front sheath among a plurality of sheaths of an airbag cushion, each of the plurality of tethers formed to have a length shorter than a distance between the front sheath and a rear sheath when the airbag cushion is fully deployed; a release mechanism provided at a rear sheath side of the airbag cushion, connected to the respective other sides of the plurality of tethers, and selectively releasing a tether among the plurality of tethers upon an operation of the release mechanism; and a controller configured to variably control a deployment shape of the airbag cushion by operating the release mechanism based on a collision direction of the vehicle, a seat state of a seat of the vehicle, or a sitting posture of a passenger in the vehicle.

A restraint system includes an instrument panel having an exterior panel directed downward, an airbag having an uninflated position behind the exterior panel and having a left chamber and a right chamber, a left inflator coupled to the left chamber, a right inflator coupled to the right chamber, and a controller programmed to selectively activate each inflator to one of a high output and a low output based on an impact angle.

An airbag apparatus for a vehicle may include first and second inflators each configured to provide an inflation gas; a main cushion connected to the first inflator and deploying toward a passenger when the first inflator operates; a sub cushion connected to the second inflator and deploying along a first side surface of the main cushion to be overlappingly deployed with the main cushion at the first side surface and the front surface of the main cushion when the second inflator operates; and a controller configured to operate the first inflator to deploy the main cushion when a vehicle collision is detected, and configured to operate both of the first inflator and the second inflator to deploy both of the main cushion and the sub cushion when the vehicle collision is detected as an oblique collision at a least a predetermined angle.

The present invention provides a gas generator, including:

an ignition device disposed on the side of a first end portion of a cylindrical housing;

a diffuser portion provided with a gas discharge port, welded and fixed to the cylindrical housing on the side of a second end portion axially opposite to the first end portion;

a combustion chamber accommodating a gas generating agent and being arranged on the side of the first end portion;

a pressurized gas chamber being filled with a gas and arranged on the side of the second end portion;

a partition wall provided with a through hole in a thickness direction thereof and separating the combustion chamber from the pressurized gas chamber;

a rupturable plate closing between the pressurized gas chamber and the diffuser portion; and

a stopper means formed on an inner wall surface of the cylindrical housing, the stopper means stopping movement of the partition wall or reducing movement speed of the partition wall, before the partition wall collides with the diffuser portion, by coming into contact with the partition wall which moves in an axial direction upon receipt of a pressure of a combustion gas generated by combustion of the gas generating agent in the combustion chamber at the time of actuation.

An airbag device for a front passenger seat includes an airbag, two inflators each for feeding the airbag with an inflation gas, a case which holds the airbag and inflators, and a retainer which mounts the airbag and inflators on the case. One of the two inflators is a potentially-influential inflator whose inflation gas may influence the other inflator. The retainer includes a holding plate section which is disposed on an inner surface of the airbag, two insert openings for receiving main bodies of the two inflators, and a shielding wall which rises out of a position of the holding plate section between the two insert openings and extends to a vicinity of a height of the top end plane of the main body of the potentially-influential inflator. The shielding wall shields the other inflator from an inflation gas emitted by the potentially-influential inflator.