Patent ID: 7083189

Claim:
A head-protecting airbag mountable on a vehicle normally folded and housed in an upper edge of windows inside the vehicle, the airbag comprising a gas admissive portion inflatable with inflation gas from inflator, a non-admissive portion admitting no inflation gas, and a gas feed passage disposed along an upper edge of the airbag, the gas admissive portion comprising a shielding portion, located below the gas feed passage, for covering the vehicle's interior side of the windows upon deployment of the airbag, the gas feed passage being adapted to guide inflation gas discharged from the inflator to the shielding portion, the shielding portion comprising: a plurality of vertical chambers, each of the vertical chambers being disposed vertically upon deployment of the airbag and being communicated with the gas feed passage; and at least one horizontal chamber, the horizontal chamber being disposed along longitudinal direction of the vehicle upon deployment of the airbag, the horizontal chamber is located between at least one pair of the vertical chambers neighboring each other such that the horizontal chamber communicates the pair of the vertical chambers in the vicinity of vertically middle position of the vertical chambers.