Patent ID: 8573633

Claim:
A seat cushion airbag apparatus applied to a vehicle seat having a seat portion, the seat portion having a seat cushion that is supported from below by a support portion of a seat frame, wherein the seat cushion airbag apparatus raises a seat face of the vehicle seat, thereby restraining an object on the seat face so that the object is prevented from moving forward, the seat cushion airbag apparatus comprising: an airbag arranged between the support portion of the seat frame and the seat cushion; an inflation fluid generator that supplies inflation fluid for inflating at least a part of the airbag between the support portion of the seat frame and the seat cushion, thereby raising the seat face; and a contact preventing member arranged between the support portion of the seat frame and the airbag, wherein a part of the contact preventing member that is in the vicinity of the support portion is flexible, and the contact preventing member prevents the airbag from contacting the support portion of the seat frame when the airbag is inflated, wherein the airbag has an inflation portion that is supplied with the inflation fluid from the inflation fluid generator and inflated and a non-inflation portion that is not supplied with the inflation fluid and not inflated, and the contact preventing member is fixed to the non-inflation portion of the airbag.