Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nobuhiro Kawamoto

Takashi Kikuchi

Kazuhiro Onda

Itaru Genpei

Makoto Uchikawa

Yuichi Saito

Yukio Hiruta

Hajime Ishida

Disclosed is a passenger protection device () for a vehicle, which protects a passenger (Mn) sitting on a seat () when an external force (Fs) is applied to a side surface () of a vehicle body (). The passenger protection device has a side support (). The side support is provided on the side portion of a seat back (), and supports the upper body (Bu) of the passenger. The side support has a deformable portion (). The deformable portion allows the side support to be deformed by an external force having a predetermined value or more.

Passenger protection device for vehicle

An airbag for a vehicle, the airbag formed as a bag body by sewing together a base cloth, wherein the bag body is configured so that a direction in which the bag body unfolds expands from a base end side of the bag body to a tip end side, and, the bag body includes a tensional force providing mechanism generating a tensional force pulling an upper rim of the bag body toward an outer side by forming a tension line extending so as to cross with the direction in which the bag body unfolds, along a side surface of the bag body.

Vehicle airbag and method of manufacturing the same

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Wako, Japan

Nobuhiro Kawamoto