Patent 7000943 was granted and assigned to Takata Corporation on February, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An airbag is inflated with gas ejected from an inflator disposed at a base end thereof in a direction that a front end moves away from the base end. The airbag includes a left half airbag to be inflated on a front left side of an occupant and a right half airbag to be inflated on a front right side of the occupant. A partition wall is disposed in the airbag for dividing the airbag into a base end portion and a front end portion. The partition wall has openings for communicating the base end portion and the front end portion with each other.