Patent ID: 9120455
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. An airbag that is normally folded and accommodated in a structural member of a vehicle and that is inflated and deployed by a supply of gas in an emergency, the airbag comprising: a bag member that is formed of a base cloth; and a pleat or a plurality of pleats that are formed at the bag member, wherein the pleat or pleats have a crease portion in a front-back direction of the vehicle to allow the gas to escape to the crease portion upon loading from the front-back direction of the vehicle when the bag member is inflated and deployed, and wherein the pleat or pleats are formed by folding the base of the cloth in two, and then folding back and forth and sewing an open edge of the base cloth so that a vertex is formed at a central portion at a fold edge of the base cloth.