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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2002
Tomohiro Sawa, Shiga, JP;
Tadahiro Igawa, Shiga, JP;
Tomohiro Sawa, Shiga, JP;
Tadahiro Igawa, Shiga, JP;
Takata Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An external airbag device is provided which can smoothly deploy its airbag with being caught by neither a rear edge of a hood nor a windshield wiper. A lidis allowed to be displaced relative to a retainerin the vertical direction because hooksare movable in the vertical direction within apertures. When an airbagis inflated, the lidis lifted and is torn to open outwardly by the inflation pressure of the airbagto create flaps. The flapwhich pivoted outwardly toward the front of the motor vehicle is laid on an outer surface of a rear edge portion of a hood. The flapwhich pivoted outwardly toward the rear of the motor vehicle is laid on a cowl topbelow the windshieldto cover windshield wipers