Patent ID: 7766373

Claim:
A passenger-side airbag device comprising: a passenger-side airbag that includes a left airbag portion and a right airbag portion that correspond to respective left and right shoulders of an occupant seated in a passenger seat, and a root portion that connects a left-airbag root portion and a right-airbag root portion; and an inflator which is formed to be elongate, which has a plurality of gas-supply holes, and which supplies gas into the passenger-side airbag through the plurality of the gas-supply holes when a collision occurs, wherein the inflator and the passenger-side airbag are stored in an airbag case fixed in an instrument panel, the passenger-side airbag being stored in a folded state; and wherein an accordion-folded portion is formed by accordion-folding both side portions of the root portion only at positions corresponding to both end portions of the inflator in a longitudinal direction of the inflator, the both side portions being accordion-folded along the longitudinal direction of the inflator, whereby at least the plurality of the gas-supply holes, which are closest to the end portions of the inflator in the longitudinal direction and are positioned longitudinally inward of first inner ridges of the accordion-folded portion closest to the inflator and positioned inward of outer ridges, the inner ridges being defined by longitudinally inward-facing, convex surfaces of both side portions, are prevented from being closed by the root portion that is in a folded state when the passenger-side airbag device is provided in a vehicle.