Patent ID: 9227590
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: B60R

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle side airbag device comprising: an inflator disposed in a seat back of a vehicle seat and that generates a gas upon activation; a side airbag that has two bag portions partitioned from one another by a partition portion, the side airbag being inflated and deployed, when the gas is supplied to an inner side of the side airbag, toward a vehicle front side from a side portion of a vehicle width direction outer side of the seat back of the vehicle seat, the two bag portions being adjacent to one another along a vehicle body side portion, and the side airbag configured to restrain at least a shoulder, a chest and an abdomen of an occupant seated in the vehicle seat; and a tension cloth that is disposed bridging the two bag portions on a vehicle width direction outer side of the side airbag in an inflated and deployed state of the side airbag, that is pulled between the two bag portions, and that controls inflation of the side airbag in the direction in which the tension cloth is pulled to enlarge a vehicle width direction inflation width of the side airbag, wherein in the inflated and deployed state of the side airbag, the two bag portions are vertically adjacent to one another, and the tension cloth is pulled between an upper side of a first one of the two bag portions disposed on an upper side and a second one of the two bag portions disposed on a lower side.