Vehicle knee airbag device and knee airbag folding method

A vehicle knee airbag device comprising:

• a protruding profile section disposed at a front section of a vehicle cabin and protruding toward a vehicle cabin inner side so as to configure an instrument panel, a position in a vehicle vertical direction of the protruding profile section being configured to be further toward a vehicle upper side than knees of a seated occupant in a front seat;
• an upright wall section provided adjacent to a vehicle lower side of a lower wall of the protruding profile section, and extending in the vehicle vertical direction and a vehicle width direction;
• and
• a knee airbag module installed at a vehicle front side of the upright wall section or at a vehicle upper side of the lower wall of the protruding profile section, and including a knee airbag which, on receipt of a supply of gas, is configured to inflate and deploy to at least a front side of the knees of the seated occupant and to a lower side of the protruding profile section,
• wherein the knee airbag includes an occupant-side base cloth portion that is disposed on an occupant-facing side of the knee airbag in an inflated and deployed state and a non-occupant-side base cloth portion that is disposed on a non-occupant-facing side of the knee airbag in the inflated and deployed state, the non-occupant-side base cloth portion being disposed adjacent to the upright wall section in the inflated and deployed state of the knee airbag.