US 11,807,183 B2
Occupant protection apparatus
Jinichi Tanabe, Tochigi (JP); Tatsuki Nonaka, Tochigi (JP); Shoji Endo, Tochigi (JP); Takayoshi Ito, Tochigi (JP); and Takahiro Shimizu, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to TS TECH CO., LTD., Saitama (JP)
Appl. No. 17/287,808
Filed by TS TECH CO., LTD., Saitama (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/041315
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/085304, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-198966 (JP), filed on Oct. 23, 2018; application No. 2018-198967 (JP), filed on Oct. 23, 2018; application No. 2018-224657 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2018; and application No. 2018-224658 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0394698 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. B60R 21/207 (2006.01); B60R 21/015 (2006.01); B60R 21/231 (2011.01); B60N 2/75 (2018.01); B60R 21/0132 (2006.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01)
CPC B60R 21/207 (2013.01) [B60N 2/763 (2018.02); B60R 21/0132 (2013.01); B60R 21/01512 (2014.10); B60R 21/23138 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60R 2021/23146 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An occupant protection apparatus, comprising:
a vehicle seat arranged in an inner space of a side wall of a vehicle; and
a side airbag device provided in the side wall or the vehicle seat and including a side airbag to be inflated and deployed between the side wall and the vehicle seat, wherein the vehicle seat includes:
a pressure-receiving portion configured to receive a load from an occupant seated on the vehicle seat;
a frame configured to support the pressure-receiving portion; and
a seat back, wherein:
the occupant protection apparatus further comprises:
an electronic control circuit configured to perform moving the pressure-receiving portion so that the occupant is pushed away from the side wall before the occupant comes into contact with the side airbag at an activation time when the side airbag device is activated by an impact acting from an outside of the vehicle with respect to the side wall and the side airbag is inflated and deployed, and
the pressure-receiving portion is a pressure-receiving plate to support a back of the occupant through a pad of the seat back.