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US 2012/0074672 A1Published application
Airbag apparatus
AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
InventorsHitoshi Iida, Nobuaki Okamura, Mikine Hayashi
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Abstract
The invention provides an airbag apparatus including an airbag that is folded toward an inflator attaching part and that is accommodated within a pad functioning as a case such that the airbag is provided with first and second folded parts arranged on a cabin side from an inflator. A tear line is formed on the pad at a position deviated from a center of the inflator toward the first folded part and divides the case into a first door and a second door. In the airbag apparatus, the second folded part that is covered by the first door is folded in a bellows shape.
Claims6
An airbag apparatus comprising:
- an airbag that is folded toward an inflator attaching part so as to narrow a width of the airbag in a lateral direction and thus forms an intermediate shape extending in a longitudinal direction with the inflator attaching part being interposed therebetween, in which parts extending in the longitudinal direction in the intermediate shape are respectively folded toward the inflator attaching part to form a first folded part and a second folded part, and that is accommodated in a case with the first and second folded parts being arranged on a cabin side from the inflator,
- wherein the case is provided with a tear line that is formed at a position deviated from a center of the inflator toward the first folded part and divides the case into a first door and a second door, the first door overlapping over both the first and second folded parts and deploying from the second folded part serving as a support point and the second door overlapping over the first folded part and deploying from the first folded part serving as a support point, and
- wherein the second folded part is folded in a bellows shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.