Patent ID: 8550495
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. An airbag apparatus having an airbag, which is formed into a bag shape by sewing a base fabric, wherein the airbag includes a seam, formed by the sewing, and an inflation portion, surrounded by the seam and has a center, wherein the inflation portion is capable of being inflated by being supplied with inflation gas, and wherein the seam includes a first seam section and a second seam section, which are adjacent to each other, wherein the second seam section is formed after the first seam section is formed, wherein the second seam section has an extremity, close to the first seam section, and an overlapped portion, a section between the extremity and an intersected portion of the second seam section, the second seam section intersects the first seam section, and wherein the first seam section has an end part, close to the second seam section and includes an overlapping portion, closer to the center of the inflation portion than the overlapped portion of the second seam section and extends along the overlapped portion of the second seam section, wherein the overlapping portion of the first seam section includes an intersecting portion, intersecting the intersected portion of the second seam section, and wherein the end part of the first seam section further includes an extension, extending from the intersecting portion of the first seam section to a position that is spaced further from the center of the inflation portion than the second seam section.