Patent ID: 8540277
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A passenger-side airbag comprising: a folded body of an airbag in which an inflator opening is provided at a base end of the airbag and a vent hole is provided at each of right and left side surfaces of the airbag, wherein right and left end parts of the airbag are folded along vertical fold lines, thereby providing a vertically long primary folded body, wherein the primary folded body is folded along lateral fold lines, thereby providing the passenger-side airbag folded body serving as a final folded body, wherein the vent holes are exposed at right and left end faces of the final folded body, and wherein a bag attachment ring in the airbag base end surrounds the inflator opening, and opposite right and left portions of the airbag primary folded body extending between and to the bag attachment ring and the vent holes are each folded toward the inside of the airbag about only a single one of the vertical fold lines so that upon airbag inflation, the right and left opposite airbag portions quickly unfold to rapidly shift the vent holes to positions outside a retainer containing the airbag final folded body and above a passenger-side instrument panel to which the retainer is mounted.