Passenger leg protection apparatus
AssigneeTakata Corporation
InventorKazuhiro Abe
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Abstract
A passenger leg protection apparatus includes an airbag to be inflated at a position in front of legs of a passenger for protecting the legs, a case accommodating the folded airbag, and a gas generating unit for inflating the airbag. The folded body of the airbag includes a wound body folded along lateral folding lines extending laterally relative to the passenger several times in the same folding direction. The airbag is disposed in the case so that the wound body is deployed upward or downward while rolling along a front surface of the legs so as to be unwound when being inflated.
Claims8
A passenger leg protection apparatus for protecting legs of a passenger in a vehicle, comprising:
- a case to be attached to the vehicle,
- a gas generating unit disposed in the case for generating a gas, and
- an airbag disposed in the case in a folded state and connected to the gas generating unit to be inflated by the gas generated from the gas generating unit and deployed from the case, said airbag having a folded portion folded along lateral folding lines more than one time in a same direction so that the folded portion is deployed vertically while rolling when the airbag is inflated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.