Patent ID: 7367582

Claim:
An airbag apparatus for a vehicle having a sidewall and at least three seatrows arranged in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, comprising: a vehicle airbag installed at an upper portion of the sidewall of the vehicle to be inflated downwardly in passenger-protection regions between passengers seated in seats and the sidewall of the vehicle for protecting the passengers upon a vehicle accident, said vehicle airbag extending at the upper portion of the sidewall between a first region corresponding to a first seat-row from a front side of the vehicle to a third region corresponding to a third seatrow from the front side of the vehicle, first and second sections disposed in the vehicle airbag for completely separately defining an inside of the vehicle airbag, each of said first and second sections having a main inflatable chamber forming one passenger-protection region and a sub-inflatable chamber located at a side of the main inflatable chamber, said sub-inflatable chamber of the first section being configured to overlap with the subinflatable chamber of the second section in a vertical direction to form one passenger-protection region by the two sub-inflatable chambers when the vehicle airbag is inflated, a first gas supplying device for supplying gas to the first section, and a second gas supplying device for supplying gas to the second section.