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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2017
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Masanobu Ohmi, Kasugai, JP;
Seiji Yamamoto, Seto, JP;
Kosuke Sakakibara, Toyota, JP;
Kazuki Sugie, Miyoshi, JP;
Misato Kinoshita, Toyota, JP;
Yoshiaki Matsumura, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle occupant protecting device, includes: an multidirectional airbag that is accommodated in a headrest, and that receives a gas supply from an inflator and inflates and expands, and that protects a head portion of a vehicle occupant from at least a front side and left and right both sides, and at which a front expanding portion, which protects the head portion from a front side, passes above the head portion in a process of inflating and expanding; and a vehicle cabin ceiling at which a reinforcing portion as an expanding direction regulating means is provided at an interference region which the front expanding portion interferes with in the process of inflating and expanding, and that, by the interference, directs an expanding direction of the front expanding portion toward a front side of the head portion.