Patent ID: 7740097
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A hood airbag device for use in a vehicle, comprising: an airbag case accommodating therein a gas generating unit that discharges a gas when the vehicle collides with an impact object and an airbag adapted to be deployed over an outer hood panel by the gas supplied from the gas generating unit, wherein the airbag case is capable of being inserted from below an inner hood panel and mounted in place through a mounting aperture formed at a rear side of the inner hood panel and formed along a hood width direction; and an in-hood reinforcement, arranged around the airbag case, and connected to the outer hood panel and the periphery around the mounting aperture of the inner hood panel to reinforce a peripheral portion around the mounting aperture of the inner hood panel, in which longitudinal opposite end portions of the in-hood reinforcement are respectively coupled to hood hinge reinforcements disposed at opposite lateral sides of the inner hood panel.