AIRBAG DEVICE FOR FRONT PASSENGER SEAT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air bag device for a front passenger seat capable of rearward shifting an entire rear face of the deploying and inflating air in a generally vertical condition. SOLUTION: In the airbag device M1 for the front passenger seat, before the air bag 40 is housed in a case 24 and mounted on vehicle, it is folded up through a preparatory folding step and a regular folding step that includes a transverse folding step and a vertical folding step. In a preparatorily folded shape of the air bag 40 after the preparatory folding step, a portion 60 near an upper edge 42 of the passenger's side wall 41 is located to confront the gas inlet port 50, and the passenger's side wall 41 is flatly developed so as to overlap with a lower part 49 of the circumferential wall 48. In the transverse folding step of the regular folding step of the airbag 40, a portion 72 of the preparatorily folded airbag located rearward of the gas inlet port 50 is folded back in two toward a lower side of the lower part 49 of the circumferential wall 48 to bring a rear end 72a thereof closer to the gas inlet port 50. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI