Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideki Takasawa

Tatsuya Komamura

Hironori Chaya

A vehicle passenger restraint device includes a left seat and a right seat provided in a vehicle cabin so as to be capable of moving in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a far side airbag that is provided to a vehicle width direction inside portion of a seatback of the right seat and that is configured so as to be inflated and deployed to a vehicle width direction inside of a passenger seated in the right seat by being supplied with gas from an inflator. The far side airbag includes a rear deployment section that is configured to deploy toward a vehicle rear side past the seatback of the right seat. The far side airbag is configured so as to overlap with a seatback of the left seat in side view even when the left seat is disposed displaced in a vehicle front-rear direction with respect to the right seat.

Vehicle passenger restraint device and far side airbag folding method

A cushion air bag includes a waist restraining portion that is arranged at a central portion of a cushion panel, and a gas introducing portion that connects this waist restraining portion to an inflator that is provided at a front portion of a cushion panel. This cushion air bag is inflated such that the waist restraining portion reaches a higher height than the gas introducing portion.

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Toyota, Japan

Hideki Takasawa