Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Tomoko Kurata

Osamu Fukawatase

Naoki Matsuda

Tadashi Yamada

Tomoharu Kobayashi

Toru Ozaki

Yuki Nonoyama

Yasushi Itou

Hitoshi Matsushima

Kazuhiro Kawachi

A gas generator, includes: a housing having closure shell, a diffuser shell including a gas discharge ports, and a flange portion; an inner tube member defining a combustion chamber in an outside thereof for accommodating a gas generating agent,

Gas generator for restraining device of vehicle

A gas generator includes: a housing having closure and diffuser shells; an inner tube member accommodating an igniter, an opening end of the inner tube member being located opposing a bottom plate of the closure shell and defining a ventilating portion formed at the opening end,

A knee airbag device for a vehicle, configured in such a manner that, when a knee airbag is inflated and expanded with the knees of a vehicle occupant located close to an airbag door, a load to the lower legs is reduced. A first tear section () for expanding a first airbag door () in the vehicle's top-bottom direction and a second tear section () for expanding a second airbag door () in the vehicle's lateral direction are formed on the rear surface side of a glove-box-door outer member (). The first tear section () is composed of a left and right pair of vertical tear sections () and a first horizontal tear section (). The second tear section () is composed of second lateral tear sections ().

Knee airbag device for vehicle

It is an object to ensure that, even when knee regions of an occupant are in a near state with respect to a storage section of a knee airbag at the time of a frontal collision of a vehicle, the knee regions can be restrained appropriately by the knee airbag. A knee airbagstored in a folded state in a glove box door(a storage section) receives a supply of a gas at the time of a frontal collision of a vehicleand inflates and deploys toward knee regionsK of an occupantseated in a front passenger seat(a vehicle seat). At this time, when the knee regionsK of the occupantare in a near state with respect to the glove box door, the gas inside the knee airbagbecomes ventable to the outside from a vent hole, The vent holeappropriately vents this gas from the inside, of the knee airbag, and the reaction force of the knee airbagwith respect to the knee regionsK are reduced.

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Tsuchiura, Japan

Tomoko Kurata