Patent ID: 8353531

Claim:
A passenger protection apparatus of a vehicle which restrains and protects a passenger seated in a passenger's seat in a vehicle collision, comprising: an airbag stored in a portion of an instrument panel in front of the passenger's seat, the airbag having a concaved receiving portion at a specified position thereof which corresponds to a face of a specified sized passenger seated in the passenger's seat when the airbag inflates in the vehicle collision; an inflator stored in the portion of the instrument panel in front of the passenger's seat along with the airbag, the inflator supplying gas to the airbag in the vehicle collision to inflate the airbag before the passenger's seat; a sitting position detecting device detecting a longitudinal sitting position of the passenger seated in the passenger's seat; and a passenger restraint position adjusting device adjusting a restraint position of the passenger in accordance with the longitudinal sitting position of the passenger detected by said sitting position detecting device so that the face of said specified sized passenger is received at said receiving portion of the airbag in the vehicle collision.