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Air bag apparatus

  • US 7,677,597 B2
  • Filed: 12/22/2008
  • Issued: 03/16/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An air bag apparatus comprising:

  • an air bag that is housed along a roof side rail and is inflated and deployed in a curtain-like shape along a vehicle compartment side wall due to gas supplied from an inflator that is disposed outside the air bag and is arranged in a center portion along a longitudinal direction of a vehicle so as to protect a head portion of an occupant, the air bag being provided with an inflating portion for a front seat and an inflating portion for a rear seat;

    a gas passage for communicating upper portions of both of the inflating portions;

    a single gas supply port that opens into the gas passage from above; and

    a shower head for dispersing the gas supplied from the inflator in a plurality of directions and being disposed so as to face the gas supply port of the air bag, the shower head having a plurality of injection holes which are directed in the plurality of directions.

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