Patent ID: 8292323
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A knee airbag device for a vehicle, comprising: a gas generator that operates to generate gas; a knee airbag that is accommodated in a folded state and is disposed at a height of knees of an occupant in a sitting state, and that deploys by inflating toward the knees of the occupant with gas supplied from the gas generator; an upper tether and a lower tether that span between an occupant side base fabric portion and a counter-occupant side base fabric portion of an interior of the knee airbag, and that are disposed along a vehicle width direction at up-down positions sandwiching a gas inflow portion at which the gas from the gas generator inflows; and a gas through-flow control portion that is provided at the upper tether and the lower tether; wherein the gas through-flow control portion comprising: