Nissan Motor Company Limited

Yoshihiro Koga

Masanori Narita

Takehiko Miyahara

Kiyoharu Ishigouoka

An air bag apparatus for a vehicle has a longitudinal pad, a longitudinal metal cover, and an air bag that is folded-up. The pad is fixed within a roof rail, and has a cross-section that is substantially the shape of a hat that protrudes into the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The cover is disposed beneath the pad on the inner surface of the roof rail, has an upper end that is fixed to the uppermost surface of the pad, a lower end that is in proximity to the roof rail, and a substantially L-shaped cross-section. The air bag is housed between the roof rail and the cover and, when the vehicle experiences a collision, pushes outward between the lower end of the cover and the roof rail, so as to form an aperture therebetween, from which the air bag deploys downward.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Yoshihiro Koga