Patent ID: 7331600
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: B62J

Abstract:
1. An airbag apparatus for a motorcycle for protecting a rider in the event of frontal collisions, the airbag apparatus comprising: a retainer for the airbag mounted to the motorcycle; an airbag for being deployed in a primarily upward, vertical direction with the inflated airbag having an uppermost end portion spaced upwardly from the retainer; and an inflation control device generally aligned over and spaced upwardly from the retainer to extend thereover upon airbag inflation for restricting inflation of the airbag in a predetermined fore and aft direction that is generally aligned with rider movement due to frontal collisions and allowing inflation of the airbag in the upward vertical direction with the inflation control device sized so that size of the inflated airbag in the upward vertical direction is substantially larger than in the predetermined fore and aft direction and being connected to the airbag at at least two positions that are spaced from each other generally along the fore and aft direction and that are at an approximately equal distance from the retainer closer to the airbag upper end portion than to the retainer with the airbag deployed and inflated.