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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2010
Teruhiko Hiruta, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Teruhiko Hiruta, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takata Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An airbag apparatus includes a gas generator that generates gas, and an airbag inflated and deployed by the gas supplied from the gas generator. The airbag restrains an occupant in a first state in which the occupant's chin is positioned on the airbag apparatus or the occupant in a second state in which the occupant's chin is positioned on a steering wheel. The airbag includes one main exhaust port, a vent cover provided to cover the one main exhaust port, and at least one sub exhaust port without a vent cover. The sub exhaust port exhausts the gas without using the main exhaust port in a state in which the vent cover blocks the main exhaust port due to a folded state of the airbag in an initial stage of an inflating and deploying operation performed to restrain the occupant in the first state or in the second state.
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