Patent ID: 8608195
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A mid-mount passenger airbag apparatus adapted to be mounted on a rear end area of a top plane of an instrument panel in front of a front passenger's seat of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a housing; an inflatable airbag housed in the housing in a folded-up configuration for deployment rearward and upward after emerging from the housing in the form of a generally square conical contour whose front end is the top of the square cone, the airbag including a passenger side wall that is deployable generally vertically at a rear end so as to face the front passenger's seat, a circumferential wall that extends forward from a peripheral edge of the passenger side wall in a narrowing fashion, and a gas inlet port that is located on an underside of the circumferential wall at deployment for taking an inflation gas into the airbag from an inflator, and the airbag being secured to the housing or its vicinity at a periphery of the gas inlet port; and a wrapping member that wraps up the airbag in the folded-up configuration, the wrapping member including: wherein the folded-up configuration of the airbag is made through a folding process comprising the steps of: wherein the main body of the wrapping member wraps the outer circumference of the airbag in the folded-up configuration.