Patent ID: 8447473

Claim:
An occupant protection apparatus comprising: a seatbelt including a region fitted to an occupant from a shoulder part thereof to a lumbar part thereof to restrain the occupant; a slack removal device that is actuated to remove slack in the seatbelt; a load limitation device that is actuated in response to a head-on collision of a vehicle to limit a restraint load applied to the occupant by the seatbelt; an inflation body deployment device that supplies an inflation body with a fluid to inflate/deploy the inflation body between the occupant and a vehicle interior member located in front of the occupant with respect to the vehicle; and a control device that actuates the slack removal device and actuates the inflation body deployment device such that the inflation body starts being supplied with the fluid upon or after start of actuation of the load limitation device following actuation of the slack removal device in an event of a head-on collision of the vehicle.