Patent ID: 8408596

Claim:
An airbag device for a passenger seat that is disposed inside an instrument panel of the vehicle and protects an occupant inside the vehicle by inflation and deployment of an airbag when an emergency situation occurs, the airbag device comprising: an airbag having a compressed pre-deployment configuration comprising a plurality of layers formed in a vertical direction, and a deployment configuration in which the airbag is inflated and deployed when an emergency situation occurs, and a restriction member that restricts deployment of the airbag such that a deployment direction of an upper layer portion of the airbag is directed toward an occupant side of a vehicle, wherein the upper layer portion is the first portion among the plurality of layers of the airbag to be deployed, the lower layer portion of the airbag being deployed after the upper layer portion is deployed and being deployed out of the restriction member with the restriction member remaining intact.