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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
May. 08, 2002
Ryosuke Nakanishi, Shiga, JP;
Takata Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A head-protecting bag for an occupant in an automobile is provided. The bag is not likely to be caught at an inner surface of a compartment as it inflates downward along a lateral side of the compartment. The bag includes an intermediate folded-body which is formed by folding a plurality of times along folding lines extending in a longitudinal direction of the automobile. The intermediate folded-body is bellows-folded from its lower end to its upper end. As a result, the lower edge of its head-protecting bag is positioned toward the lower end side of the folded body. Since the lower edge of the bag is positioned toward the lower end side of the folded body, the folded body inflates always downward along the lateral side of the compartment.