Patent ID: 9102306
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A pedestrian airbag apparatus that is accommodated in a storage portion arranged near a rear end of a hood panel of a vehicle and at a middle side of the hood panel in a left and right direction of the vehicle between left and right front pillars, the pedestrian airbag apparatus comprising: a folded airbag; and an inflator that supplies an inflation gas to the airbag, wherein the airbag includes, upon completion of inflation, wherein the airbag further includes a lower wall portion arranged on a lower surface side of the airbag and an upper wall portion arranged on an upper surface side of the airbag upon completion of inflation; wherein the transversal inflation portion includes partitions configured to couple the lower wall portion with the upper wall portion and intermittently formed substantially along the left and right direction, and gas communication passages penetrated in a front and rear direction of the vehicle in regions between the partitions, and thus an inner region of the transversal inflation portion is partitioned into transversal cell sections arranged side by side in the front and rear direction; wherein the gas inlet is arranged on the front transversal cell section of the transversal inflation portion arranged on the front side of the airbag; wherein the front transversal cell section is arranged to cover an upper surface of the rear end of the hood panel upon completion of inflation; wherein the partitions include end-side partitions arranged to extend from both left and right ends of the transversal inflation portion inward in the left and right direction and thus to block front side portions of the longitudinal inflation portions; and wherein the airbag includes tethers limiting a spacing distance from the storage portion of the airbag by connecting proximal portion sides of the tethers to regions on distal end sides of the end-side partitions and connecting distal end sides of the tethers to the storage portion, wherein proximal ends of the tethers are fixed to the end-side partitions.