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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2008
Osamu Fukawatase, Aichi, JP;
Yasushi Itou, Toyota, JP;
Tomoko Kurata, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
It is an object to ensure that, even when knee regions of an occupant are in a near state with respect to a storage section of a knee airbag at the time of a frontal collision of a vehicle, the knee regions can be restrained appropriately by the knee airbag. A knee airbagstored in a folded state in a glove box door(a storage section) receives a supply of a gas at the time of a frontal collision of a vehicleand inflates and deploys toward knee regionsK of an occupantseated in a front passenger seat(a vehicle seat). At this time, when the knee regionsK of the occupantare in a near state with respect to the glove box door, the gas inside the knee airbagbecomes ventable to the outside from a vent hole, The vent holeappropriately vents this gas from the inside, of the knee airbag, and the reaction force of the knee airbagwith respect to the knee regionsK are reduced.