Patent ID: 7997615

Claim:
An occupant restraint system for a vehicle having a rear seat including a rear seat back and a seating surface, and a rear tray extending rearwardly from an upper portion of the seat back, the occupant restraint system comprising: a side airbag device having a first airbag for, in a side collision, receiving gas supply from a first inflator and inflating to deploy such that the first airbag covers a side internal surface of a passenger compartment; and a rear seat airbag device having a second airbag that when inflated has an upside-down L-shaped configuration in profile with the second airbag being housed in a support section formed in the rear tray, the support section being covered with a lid, such that in the side collision, the second airbag receives gas supply from a second inflator, presses to open the lid, projects out of the support section, and inflates so that an upper short leg portion of the L-shaped second airbag inflates to project forwardly from the rear tray from behind the rear seat back and is sized to project forwardly beyond the rear seat back, and so that a long leg portion of the second airbag is inflated downwardly from the upper short leg portion toward the seating surface.