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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2007
Yuichi Adachi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kazuaki Bito, Aichi-ken, JP;
Osamu Fukawatase, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tomoyuki Moro, Toyota, JP;
Kenji Imamura, Kosai, JP;
Akiyoshi Sanada, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yuichi Adachi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kazuaki Bito, Aichi-ken, JP;
Osamu Fukawatase, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tomoyuki Moro, Toyota, JP;
Kenji Imamura, Kosai, JP;
Akiyoshi Sanada, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Aichi-pref., JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
The knee-protecting airbag apparatus includes an airbag folded and housed in a lower area inside the column cover. The airbag pushes and opens a door section on the column cover upon deployment. When the door section is thus opened, a door of the door section blocks off an allowance gap formed between an outer circumference of the column cover subjected to position adjustment and a lower area of a peripheral region of an installation opening on a dashboard for installing the column cover by locating a rear edge region of the door to abut on a rear side of the dashboard or the lower area of the peripheral region of the installation opening on the rear side of the dashboard.