Patent ID: 7862082

Claim:
An inflatable air bag receiving inflation gas from an inflator mounted on an instrument panel to inflate the air bag in the region between a windshield and the instrument panel and a seated occupant, comprising: a bag base wall having a mouth registering with the inflator and extending rearward along the instrument panel and toward the seated occupant and extending further rearward and downwardly; spaced apart left and right sidewalls that connect the bag base wall with a top wall and an occupant facing wall thereby defining an upper torso restraining portion of the inflated air bag for restraining an occupant upper torso and a lower torso restraining portion for restraining an occupant lower torso; and an internal baffle provided within the air bag and being a flap of material having a baffle base wall sewn to the bag base wall rearwardly of the mouth and a left side baffle portion and a right side baffle portion attached to and extending from the baffle base wall respectively to the left and right sidewalls of the air bag and attached respectively to the left and right sidewalls of the air bag so that the inflation gas impinges on the baffle and is divided into left and right flow streams flowing on opposite sides of the baffle base wall and directed downwardly into the lower torso restraining portion, said internal baffle also having an upright baffle wall that extends upright from the left and right side baffle portions and is attached to the top wall and left and right sidewalls of the air bag to block the flow of inflation gas directly into the upper torso restraining portion, whereby the flow of inflation gas from the inflator into the air bag is accomplished via the left and right flow streams downwardly into the lower torso restraining portion and then from the lower torso restraining portion upwardly into the upper torso restraining portion.