Patent ID: 9701273
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B60R

Claim:
1. An airbag device adapted to be mounted on a vehicle, comprising: an airbag that is stored in and held by a housing in a folded-up configuration and is inflatable and deployable out of the housing for protecting a vehicle occupant when fed with an inflation gas; a limitation member that has flexibility and is mounted on a folded-up body, which refers to a folded-up configuration of the airbag, inside the housing for temporarily constraining a part of the airbag from unfolding and deploying, the limitation member comprising: a wrapping member that wraps, in a tearable fashion, the folded-up body and the limitation member for keeping the folded-up configuration of the airbag; and a flap member that is mounted to a vicinity of the housing and disposed between the limitation member and the wrapping member inside the housing, the flap member being so deployable as to reach a vehicle occupant situated too close to the housing and cover the occupant from the airbag being deployed, wherein the temporal holding section of the limitation member comprises: