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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1999
Yasushi Okada, Ichinomiya, JP;
Kazumasa Suzuki, Ogaki, JP;
Tatsuo Hirano, Komaki, JP;
Yuji Kuriyama, Seki, JP;
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
In a passenger seat air bag system, when inflating gas is made to flow through a gas inlet into an air bag folded, received and fixed in a case in order to unfold and inflate the air bag, the air bag opens a door disposed in an instrument panel, projects therefrom, and inflates toward the rear side of a vehicle. A cover portion of a flow control cloth is provided inside the air bag so as to cover the gas inlet so that the cover portion closes the opposite sides of the gas inlet in the right/left direction of the vehicle while the cover portion leaves the opposite sides of the gas inlet in the front/rear direction of the vehicle open. The cover portion of the flow control cloth is disposed so that its center in the front/rear direction of the vehicle is shifted from the center of the gas inlet toward the rear side of the vehicle. The air bag is folded, received and fixed in the case so that its ceiling wall portion opposite to the gas inlet is disposed close to the gas inlet, while the air bag is transversely folded so that its front and rear edges are disposed close the vicinity of the center, and while the air bag is longitudinally folded so that its left and right edges are disposed close to the vicinity of the center. The front portion of the air bag is folded in the form of bellows in the state where the front edge is folded back on the ceiling wall portion side so as to lap over the ceiling wall portion when the air bag is folded transversely.