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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1999
Tadashi Yamamoto, Aichi-ken, JP;
Shinji Oguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An air bag apparatus, assembled in a vehicle steering wheel, is provided with an inflator, an air bag in a folded state and a cover for covering the folded air bag. The cover provided with a hinged door portion which is opened by a force at a time when the bag body is initially developed and inflated as it deploys. The air bag is folded to one direction to form a long and narrow shape having a predetermined width and both ends of the long and narrow shape are housed in a housing space formed between the inflator and the cover in the form of outwardly winding rolls. At a time of initial development of the air bag, each outer surface of the outwardly winding rolls is brought into contact with a wall surface of the housing space opposing to the outer surface by a gas supplied from the inflator so that the development of the outwardly winding rolls is temporally delayed.