Inflatable vehicle occupant protection device for inboard pelvis protection

An apparatus ( 10 ) helps protect an occupant ( 20 ) of a vehicle ( 12 ) that has an occupant seat ( 22 ) and a center console ( 48 ) positioned adjacent the occupant seat. The apparatus ( 10 ) includes an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device ( 120 ) inflatable from a stored condition to a...

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Hauptverfasser: NAYEF AYAD G, MOHAMMAD MASOOD A
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Zusammenfassung:An apparatus ( 10 ) helps protect an occupant ( 20 ) of a vehicle ( 12 ) that has an occupant seat ( 22 ) and a center console ( 48 ) positioned adjacent the occupant seat. The apparatus ( 10 ) includes an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device ( 120 ) inflatable from a stored condition to a deployed condition in which the protection device is inflated and positioned between the occupant ( 20 ) of the vehicle seat ( 22 ) and the center console ( 48 ). An inflation fluid source ( 122 ) provides inflation fluid for inflating the protection device ( 120 ). In the deployed condition, the protection device ( 120 ) has a first end portion ( 182 a) positioned adjacent a seat bottom ( 24 ) of the vehicle seat ( 22 ) and an opposite second end portion ( 182 b) terminating proximate an upper extent of the occupant's pelvis ( 152 ).