Patent ID: 8210566

Claim:
A vehicle between-seat airbag apparatus comprising: an airbag that is stowed in a corner portion at a vehicle rear end side and upper end side of a center console that is disposed between seats arranged in a vehicle lateral direction, the airbag receiving a gas supply and being inflated; and a bag deployment direction-restricting structure that causes the airbag that receives the gas supply and is inflated to deploy in a vehicle front direction and upward with respect to the corner portion, the bag deployment direction-restricting structure being structured to include: an airbag door that is provided at the center console and, by deployment pressure of the airbag, opens an aperture for the airbag to deploy out of the center console, a reaction force support portion that is provided at the airbag door; a door attitude retaining structure for retaining an attitude when the airbag door is opening the aperture in a predetermined opened attitude in which the reaction force supporting portion is capable of supporting the airbag from a vehicle rear direction; and a deployment shape of the airbag itself that receives the gas supply and is deployed upward and in the vehicle rear direction after being deployed to the vehicle front direction, and the airbag including: a lower side duct portion that is deployed to the vehicle front direction along a lower edge of the airbag; a front side duct portion that is deployed to upward from a vehicle front end portion of the lower side duct portion; an upper side duct portion that is deployed toward the vehicle rear direction from an upper end portion of the front side duct portion; and a duct linking portion that restricts relative positions of the lower side duct portion, the front side duct portion and the upper side duct portion by tension in a deployment complete state of the duct portions, and being structured so as to be deployed in the order of the lower side duct portion, the front side duct portion and the upper side duct portion.