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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2008
Hitoshi Matsushima, Aichi, JP;
Osamu Fukawatase, Aichi, JP;
Hitoshi Matsushima, Aichi, JP;
Osamu Fukawatase, Aichi, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
In a knee airbag device for a vehicle, which has upper and lower tethers that extend in a vehicle width direction and regulate a bag thickness of an airbag, and in which gas from an inflator is supplied between the upper and lower tethers, it is aimed to make a flow of the gas toward an upper portion and a lower portion from between the upper and lower tethers at the inside of the knee airbag smoother, and to improve deployability of the knee airbag in a vehicle vertical direction. Upper and lower tethersandare arranged to be separated from each other in the vehicle vertical direction and are formed so that a vertical clearance therebetween increases approaching both vehicle width direction end portionsA andA thereof. When the gas is supplied between the upper and lower tethersand, the gas spreads to both vehicle width direction sides along the tethersandand smoothly moves around into an upper portionA and a lower portionB of a knee airbagfrom both of the end portionsA andA of the tethersand