Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Kikuyo Izoe

Eiji Sato

Takashi Iida

Yuji Sato

Masashi Hotta

Yoshiaki Goto

Kensaku Honda

Masao Kino

Akira Yamashita

Yoshinari Takei

Yoshihiko Hishiki

Naoki Nimi

Toshihiro Hosoi

A gas generator includes an inflator and a retainer. The retainer includes a holding portion, which partially covers the inflator. The inflator has an attaching protrusion for determining the position relative to the retainer. The retainer includes an engagement base and a tongue piece. The tongue piece extends in an axial direction of the inflator and from a position separated from the engagement base in the circumferential direction of the holding portion. The engagement base and the tongue piece each have an engagement portion. The engagement portions face each other to form an engagement space therebetween, into which the attaching protrusion enters. The engagement space has an inlet the width of which is less than the size of the positioning protrusion. When the inflator causes the positioning protrusion to increase the width of the inlet, the tongue piece is elastically deformed about a basal end of the tongue piece.

Gas generator and airbag apparatus

In an airbag, an external wall composed of a flexible woven cloth is adhered and configured by extending a thick thread base cloth and a fine thread base cloth with threads of different thicknesses while performing heat pressing with a coating layer interposed between the thick thread base cloth and the fine thread base cloth. The coating layer is formed by applying a coating agent that forms the coating layer on the thick thread base cloth side in advance.

Airbag

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Kiyosu, Japan

Kikuyo Izoe