Patent ID: 7878532

Claim:
A knee-protecting airbag apparatus adapted to be mounted on a door of a glove box that has a box body provided with an opening at the rear and the door, the airbag apparatus comprising: an airbag folded-up for deployment rearward from the glove box door; a case housing the airbag and adapted to be secured to an interior of the glove box door, the case including at the rear with an opening for emergence of the airbag; an inflator housed inside the airbag and feeding the airbag with inflation gas, the inflator including: a generally columnar body extending in a left and right direction and provided with gas discharge ports; and a fixing section that secures the body and the airbag to the case, the fixing section including a projecting portion that projects from the body to an outside of the airbag and is secured to the case, the projecting portion as secured to the case extending at an upward or downward angle to the thickness direction of the door of the glove box; and an airbag cover constituting a rear face of the glove box door and covering the airbag emergence opening of the case in an openable manner at airbag deployment.