Patent ID: 8123248

Claim:
A side airbag apparatus, comprising an airbag body that is filled with a gas and deployed between a side door and an occupant upon a crash of a vehicle upon a vehicle collision, the gas being discharged from a vent hole provided in the airbag body, wherein the vent hole is directed to a front side of the vehicle, wherein the vent hole is blocked by a blocking member that can be opened when a deployment amount by which the airbag body is deployed due to inflation exceeds a predetermined amount, wherein an end of the blocking member is fixed to an inner surface of the airbag body and an other end portion of the blocking member is openably and closably attached to an other inner surface of the airbag body, wherein the other end portion of the blocking member is connected to an opposite inner surface of the airbag body by an intermediary of a connecting member, and wherein, when the airbag body is inflated beyond a deployment amount at a position corresponding to a shoulder portion of the occupant, the blocking member is pulled by the intermediary of the connecting member and peeled off from the inner surface of the airbag so as to open the vent holes.