Patent ID: 8038170

Claim:
A vehicle occupant restraint apparatus comprising: a four-point seat belt that has a pair of right and left upper body restraint webbings; and a pair of inflatable portions that are respectively provided for the pair of right and left upper body restraint webbings, wherein the pair of inflatable portions inflate with gas supplied from a gas supply device and then deploy so as to restrain a head of an occupant from moving forward in a vehicle longitudinal direction, wherein portions of bag elements that inflate with the gas supplied from the gas supply device, the portions being the occupant's head-sides in a vehicle width direction in a deployed state are folded inward along longitudinal directions of the respective webbings, the folded portions being sewed with tear seams that break at an internal pressure in the bag elements, which is higher than or equal to a predetermined value, to form the pair of inflatable portions.