Patent ID: 7766385
Filing Date: 2010-08-03
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A passenger-seat airbag that is folded and stored in an airbag case fixed in an instrument panel, and that is protruded from a bag-protrusion opening formed in the instrument panel, and is deployed toward a passenger seat when a frontal collision occurs, comprising: a left airbag and a right airbag that correspond to shoulders of an occupant seated at the passenger seat; a root portion that receives gas injected from an inflator when the inflator operates, and that connects a left-airbag root portion and a right-airbag root portion; and a strap that connects a base-end portion of the root portion to a connection root portion positioned between the left-airbag root portion and the right-airbag root portion, wherein in a lateral view, the root portion is heart shaped when inflated, and a peripheral length from a junction portion between the connection root portion and the strap to a front edge of the bag-protrusion opening is longer than or equal to a peripheral length from the junction portion between the connection root portion and the strap to a rear edge of the bag-protrusion opening.