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20090134611 | Knee airbag - A knee airbag apparatus includes a front panel configured to face toward an occupant when the knee airbag deploys and a rear panel configured to face toward an instrument panel when the knee airbag deploys. The rear panel is joined to the front panel to form an inflatable knee cushion configured to inflate to protect an occupant's knees during a crash event. The knee airbag further includes at least one internal tether extending between the front and rear panels. The internal tether is attached to the front panel at a front panel attachment location offset from a rear panel attachment location. The knee airbag further includes an external tether attached at one end to the front panel, and at a second end at the knee airbag housing. | 05-28-2009 |
20090146401 | Airbag device for a motor vehicle - An airbag device for a vehicle, including an airbag package, a receptacle, and a flexible protective covering for the airbag. The flexible protective covering includes at least two flexible, sheet-like protective elements secured to the receptacle. The flexible, sheet-like protective elements are connected to one another via at least one separable tearing line. The flexible, sheet-like protective elements flank the airbag during initial inflation and expansion of the airbag. A flexible guide layer is arranged between the protective covering and the airbag package. The flexible guide layer is permanently connected to a first of the sheet-like protective elements, such that the first sheet-like protective element, together with the guide layer, forms a composite layer flanking the airbag during inflation. | 06-11-2009 |
20100201106 | Knee airbag - The present invention relates to a knee airbag for a vehicle with a reinforcement configured to form a seal with an inflator. The knee airbag that includes an opening, an inflator inserted within the opening of the knee airbag, and a reinforcement formed around the opening of the airbag, wherein the reinforcement is configured to form a seal with the inflator. Such an arrangement may advantageously minimize or prevent the release of inflation gas through the opening for the inflator. | 08-12-2010 |
20120091696 | AIRBAG MODULE - A knee airbag apparatus includes a front panel configured to face toward an occupant when the knee airbag deploys and a rear panel configured to face toward an instrument panel when the knee airbag deploys. The rear panel is joined to the front panel to form an inflatable knee cushion configured to inflate to protect an occupant's knees during a crash event. The knee airbag further includes at least one internal tether extending between the front and rear panels. The internal tether is attached to the front panel at a front panel attachment location offset from a rear panel attachment location. The knee airbag further includes an external tether attached at one end to the front panel, and at a second end at the knee airbag housing. | 04-19-2012 |
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20120230829 | TURBINE OR COMPRESSOR BLADE - A blade for a turbine or a compressor, at least partially made of fiber-reinforced plastic, in particular carbon fiber reinforced plastic, being particularly durable under operating conditions is provided. The blade includes a blade body and a blade root. The blade body is substantially made of a folded fabric web made of fiber reinforced plastic, wherein a retaining loop is formed in the area of the fold, and wherein a blade surface is formed in the area of the fold, and wherein a blade surface is formed from the overlapping web ends. The blade root includes a longitudinal beam and at least two holders for anchoring the blade in a corresponding groove of a rotor, the holders being preferably each fixedly connected to the beam at both ends. The blade body is suspended on the beam by means of the retaining loop. | 09-13-2012 |
20130129478 | GAS TURBINE ROTOR COMPRISING AN AXIALLY DISPLACEABLE TURBINE ROTOR SHAFT - A gas turbine rotor for a gas turbine is provided. The gas turbine rotor includes a compressor rotor shaft, a turbine rotor shaft and a coupling device frictionally connecting the two rotor shafts, wherein the coupling device is designed in such a way that the friction connection also exists when the two rotor shafts are displaced relative to one another. In this case, the turbine rotor shaft is lengthened at the end facing the compressor rotor shaft in such a way that said turbine rotor shaft overlaps with the compressor rotor shaft in the axial direction and the coupling device connects this lengthened end of the turbine shaft to the compressor rotor shaft in the radial direction. | 05-23-2013 |
20130216359 | COMPRESSOR - An axial compressor is provided. The compressor has an annular flow channel, in which adjustable blades of a blade ring that extend through the flow channel are rotatably mounted. Each blade has a lug on the rotor-side of the vane for mounting an inner ring. In order to provide a wear-free, self-centering inner ring, the ring is designed as a split ring with two opposing ends and a spring element for spreading the split ring. | 08-22-2013 |
20140234111 | BLADE ARRANGEMENT - A blade arrangement is provided having a blade carrier and a retaining groove arranged therein, which retaining groove has projections extending along side walls thereof forming undercuts and into which a number of blades are inserted forming a blade ring of a turbomachine. Each blade has a blade root which engages into the undercuts, and each blade is pressed against the projections by an element arranged between a blade root underside and a groove base of the retaining groove. It is further provided that each element is of plate-like form and has, in the projection of the blade airfoil in the direction of the groove base, at least one bead, arranged beneath the blade airfoil, for imparting a pressing action, and in the longitudinal direction of the retaining groove, only part of the blade root which the element presses against is covered. | 08-21-2014 |