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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:
Jul. 25, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1998
Makoto Nagano, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A method of folding a bag for an air bag apparatus which is accommodated in a folded state in an apparatus main body, and is deployed and inflated toward a vehicle occupant as an ejected gas flows into the bag on impact of a predetermined high load to a frontal portion of a vehicle, includes: a first step of planarly laying out the bag including two pieces of base cloth which are respectively cut into circular shapes and whose peripheral portions are secured to each other; a second step of folding toward a center of the bag four peripheral edge portions of the bag laid out planarly in the first step, such that the shape of the bag in a plan view becomes a quadrangular shape; and a third step of folding a plurality of times four corner portions formed by folding the bag in the second step, such that the shape of the bag in a plan view becomes a quadrangular shape which is smaller than the quadrangular shape.
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