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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshio Oda, Kure, JP;
Assignee:
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2807 / ; 2807 / ;
Abstract
An air bag used in a vehicle air bag safety device is inflated by pressurized gas and expanded, in a lengthwise direction of the air bag, so that an occupant is contacted by the inflated air bag. The air bag is folded first in zigzag fashion into a plurality of lengthwise pleat-folds at opposite side portions of the air bag. The air bag is then folded in zigzag fashion into a plurality of transverse pleat-folds from the rear end of the air bag, remote from the housing, to the front end of the air bag.