Patent ID: 7735857

Claim:
A curtain airbag apparatus comprising: an airbag which is arranged along a top edge of a vehicle body and develops in a curtain-shape manner along an inside of a window; an inner cover which covers a vehicle interior side of the airbag, the inner cover including a lower portion which is configured and arranged to be pushed aside during deployment of the airbag; wherein the inner cover is operatively supported on the vehicle body via a plurality of spaced-apart hinge members; each of the hinge members having a reversed U-shape as viewed in cross section and comprising an inner plate and an outer plate which is substantially parallel to the inner plate, said inner and outer plates interconnected by an integral curved connecting plate, each of the hinge members configured to be bent by movement of the inner cover during deployment of the airbag to move the inner and outer plates to a non-parallel configuration.