[Problem] To provide an airbag apparatus in which the injury value of a passenger can be efficiently suppressed in an emergency.

[Resolution Means] A typical configuration of an airbag apparatus 100 according to the present invention includes: an inflator 118 which is installed in a vehicle so as to be capable of supplying gas; an inner bag 112 which is expanded from in front of a seat utilizing the gas; and an outer bag 110 to which the gas is supplied from the inflator 118 or via the inner bag 112 and expanded so as to surround the inner bag 112. The outer bag 110 includes an opening 116 which exposes the inner bag 112 towards the seat 104, wherein the inner bag 112 has a more elongated shape in the anteroposterior direction of the vehicle than in the width direction of the vehicle, and the inner bag 112 further includes a restraining part 114 which is exposed on the recessed surface from the opening 116 to the seat side.

The present invention relates to a seat airbag for a vehicle in which a cushion storage space 810 capable of accommodating a front cushion 200 is provided at a front end 720 connected to the front cushion 200 in a side cushion 100, and the front cushion 200 folded in a bellows type is inserted and accommodated into the cushion storage space 810. The side cushion 100 and the front cushion 200 can be deployed sequentially with a time difference, so that the reliability of the cushion deployment can be secured.

An assembly includes an airbag that has a panel defining an inflation chamber. The assembly includes a foam pad exterior to the inflation chamber with the foam pad fixed to the panel of the airbag. The foam pad is intended to provide an additional layer of reinforcement for the inflation chamber 18 when the foam pad interacts with its surroundings upon inflation.

A restraint system for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle having a side structure and a cabin with a seat for the occupant includes an airbag having a stored condition outboard of the occupant. The airbag is inflatable to a deployed condition positioned between the occupant and the vehicle side structure. The airbag extends in a forward-rearward direction from a first end positioned in front of the occupant to a second end positioned behind the occupant such that a torso and head of the occupant are laterally aligned with the second end when the seat is placed in a reclined position.

An airbag that prevents heavy interference with the head of an occupant during expansion and deployment even when the occupant is not seated in a vehicle seat in a regular position.

An airbag device 11, including an airbag 12 and an inflator 6 for supplying gas to the airbag 12. The airbag 12 is positioned to the sides of the center in the left-right direction of the vehicle seat 2 and has a pair of chambers 1a physically coupled by a coupling section 12a that deploy forward of the occupant 3 when expansion and deployment are complete. The pair of chambers 1a are respectively independent during expansion and deployment and expand and deploy frontward from both the left and right sides of the vehicle seat 2, having side protecting chambers 1 ab that cover at least the side sections 3b of the occupant 3. The side protecting chambers 1ab are coupled by coupling sections 12a positioned to the sides of the center in the left-right direction of the vehicle seat 2, and the coupling section 12a is thinner than the side protecting chambers 1ab at least during initial expansion and deployment.

A child seat includes a seat portion, a backrest frame and a front guard respectively connected pivotally with the seat portion, the backrest frame having multiple deployed positions and a collapsed position, the front guard being rotatable relative to the seat portion between an unfolded and a folded position, and a folding mechanism including a latch connected with the seat portion, and a linking part respectively coupled to the latch and the backrest frame. The latch can engage and lock the front guard in the unfolded position, and the backrest frame is rotatable to cause a displacement of the linking part that urges the latch to disengage and unlock the front guard. The folding mechanism is configured to keep the front guard in the unfolded position while the backrest frame is deployed for use, and to unlock the front guard as the backrest frame rotates toward the collapsed position.

A front head/torso airbag (10) of a vehicle occupant restraint system includes a cover surface (12) and a baffle surface (14) forming a contact face for the vehicle occupant (22) which merges Into the cover surface (12). In the inflated state of the airbag (10) being in the mounted position, the baffle surface (14) includes a central surface portion and laterally adjacent thereto at feast one bulge (20) projecting from the central surface portion for laterally protecting the head (24).

An apparatus and method for helping to protect occupants of an autonomous vehicle in the event of a collision. An airbag has a stored, pre-deployment condition in a vehicle roof. The airbag is deployable downward toward the vehicle floor in front of a vehicle occupant. The airbag includes an upper portion for receiving the occupants head and torso. A lower portion extends downward and forward from the upper portion. The lower portion is for receiving the occupants lower legs.

A seat airbag for a vehicle is installed in a side part of a seat back and an airbag cushion thereof is deployed forward. A front portion of the cushion is divided into a head chamber disposed at an upper location, a chest chamber disposed at a central location and a pelvis chamber disposed at a lower location. The airbag protects a vehicle occupant while wrapping around the occupant with use of a first tether to a fourth tether that are integrally formed into a single string and connect the respective chambers to each other.

A seat-mounted airbag device may include a seatback cushion built in a seatback of a vehicle. The seatback cushion includes side portions configured to be deployed from both side peripheral portions of a seat to a front of the seat to protect sides of an occupant when deployed by gas supplied by an inflator into the seatback cushion. Chest portions of the seatback cushion extend from front ends of the side portions to surround a chest of the occupant to protect the chest of the occupant. The airbag device includes one or more seatback tethers connected to a seat frame and mounted in the seat. When the seatback cushion is deployed, the seatback tethers are deployed along with the seatback cushion to support the chest in a top-bottom direction thereof, thereby supporting an upper body of the occupant.