Patent ID: 6913281
Filing Date: 2005-07-05
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A head-protection airbag device, comprising: an airbag stored along a roof side rail, and including a gas-introducing path provided at its upper edge and an inflation chamber; a gas distribution pipe provided within the gas-introducing path, for introducing into the inflation chamber a gas supplied from a gas supplier; and a plurality of gas outlets provided in the gas distribution pipe and opened in at least a first and second peripheral direction along the gas distribution pipe, each of the first and second peripheral directions corresponding to a respective first and second region of the gas distribution pipe, each of the first and second regions defined by an expected resistance of an interior member against deployment of the airbag. wherein with the gas supplied from the gas supplier into the inflation chamber, the airbag is inflated and deployed like a curtain along a sidewall of a vehicle compartment so as to protect a head of an occupant.