Patent ID: 7377547

Claim:
A method of folding together a vehicle side curtain airbag, spatially represented with respect to the future air bag position within the vehicle after installation, comprising the steps of: bending a base section of an unfolded air bag toward the outboard side of the vehicle and doubling over onto a middle section of the air bag located directly above the base section, the doubling over creating a crease line between the base and middle sections; rolling the adjacent base and middle sections, as a group, by first moving the crease line toward the outboard side of the vehicle, then curling the crease line back toward the unrolled portion of the middle section; creating a second crease within the base section and the middle section overlapped by the base section and then rolling the remainder of the unrolled portion of the middle section; and collapsing a top section of the extended airbag in a pleated manner.