Floor mounted lower limb restraint airbag

Abstract

A floor mounted lower limb restraint airbag device includes: an airbag installed at a lower side of a floor of a vehicle cabin, configured to rupture the floor by being supplied with gas from an inflator during a vehicle head-on collision, and configured to be expanded and deployed toward at least knee regions of a passenger seated in a vehicle seat; and a tension member coupling an upper portion of the airbag with a support section provided at a lower side of the floor, the tension member rupturing the floor and deploying accompanying expansion and deployment of the airbag, and the tension member pulling the upper portion of the airbag at a vehicle rear side and relatively toward a vehicle lower side in a case in which at least the knee regions of the passenger, who begins to move toward a vehicle front side under inertia, are restrained by the airbag.

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