Patent ID: 7845683

Claim:
An air bag system comprising an air bag folded so that an occupant-restraining face thereof which restrains an occupant upon deployment of the airbag is hidden inside a central portion of the folded air bag, and a retaining member which covers said folded air bag, wherein said retaining member includes an outer face, a plurality of side portions, each side portion disposed on a side of the outer face, and a breaking portion along which the retaining member breaks, said breaking portion extending across said outer face and an opposing pair of said side portions, said air bag is deployed by breaking the breaking portion of said retaining member, when said breaking portion breaks, said retaining member is opened so that it is divided into a plurality of deployment-inhibiting portions, and the plurality of deployment-inhibiting portions are brought into engagement with an outer peripheral portion of the air bag deployed from the folded state to delay the deployment of said outer peripheral portion.