Patent ID: 7677597
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. An air bag apparatus comprising: an air bag that is housed along a roof side rail and is inflated and deployed in a curtain-like shape along a vehicle compartment side wall due to gas supplied from an inflator that is disposed outside the air bag and is arranged in a center portion along a longitudinal direction of a vehicle so as to protect a head portion of an occupant, the air bag being provided with an inflating portion for a front seat and an inflating portion for a rear seat; a gas passage for communicating upper portions of both of the inflating portions; a single gas supply port that opens into the gas passage from above; and a shower head for dispersing the gas supplied from the inflator in a plurality of directions and being disposed so as to face the gas supply port of the air bag, the shower head having a plurality of injection holes which are directed in the plurality of directions.