Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Toyota Gosei Co., Ltd.

Choko Terazawa

Hiroki Nakajima

Toshinori Tanase

Takashi Yamamoto

Yasuo Ochiai

Hideyuki Fujiwara

Katsuhiro Okumura

Yasushi Kubota

Shuji Miura

Eisiti Nakamura

Shinji Kondo

A head-protecting air bag apparatus includes an air bag which is adapted to be fixed to a vehicle body so that the air bag extends from a pillar along a roof side rail and one of a front end and a rear end of which is fixed to an inflator. The air bag includes, at an intermediate portion thereof, a plurality of first noninflatable portions which intersect a tension line connecting the front and rear ends when the air bag is expanded, extend in a substantially vertical direction, and are located at a roof side region corresponding to the roof side rail. The air bag also includes a guide portion. The guide portion has a portion corresponding to the pillar and an extended portion extending to a first noninflatable portion of the plurality of first noninflatable portions which is adjacent to the one end.

Head-protecting air bag apparatus

Air bag for side air bag device

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Choko Terazawa