Patent ID: 7234727
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: B60R,B62D

Abstract:
1. An airbag apparatus mounted to a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: an airbag, which is initially undeployed and which is selectively displaced between an original position and a predetermined position, wherein the airbag is located inside a vehicle passenger compartment below an instrument panel of the vehicle; an inflator, which supplies gas into the airbag to deploy the airbag in a deployment direction; and a displacement mechanism, which displaces the undeployed airbag from the original position to the predetermined position when a collision of the vehicle is predicted and which displaces the undeployed airbag from the predetermined position to the original position, wherein a deployment direction of the airbag, when displaced to the predetermined position, is toward the vicinity of an occupant's knees.