Patent ID: 7360791

Claim:
An airbag apparatus mounted on a steering wheel having a toroidal rim portion and comprising an airbag deployed between a vehicle and a passenger with gas generated by a gas generator, the airbag comprising: a first panel cloth; a second panel cloth opposing the first panel cloth, wherein a periphery of the second panel cloth is attached to a periphery of the first panel cloth, and the second panel cloth faces the passenger during deployment; a reinforcement cloth fastened to an inner face of the second panel cloth, wherein the reinforcement cloth is formed so as to be smaller than the second panel cloth, and a center of the reinforcement cloth is disposed lower than the center of the second panel cloth, wherein an entire periphery of the reinforcement cloth is joined to the second panel cloth; and a tether connecting the reinforcement cloth and the first panel cloth to each other, wherein the tether is provided at a location that is lower than the center of the reinforcement cloth, wherein the gas generator injects gas from a central portion of the first panel cloth towards an inside of the airbag, the tether is attached to the first panel cloth below the center of the first panel cloth, the tether is connected to the second panel cloth at a location that is below a location at which the tether is connected to the first panel cloth, the first panel cloth is formed substantially concentrically with the toroidal rim of the steering wheel, and both the first and second panel cloths are formed to have similar sizes.