Patent 7213831 was granted and assigned to Takata Corporation on May, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A technology for constructing an airbag in which protection of the occupant may be thoroughly assured in case of accident of a motorbike and a technology relating thereto are provided. An airbag apparatus including an airbag which is deployed and expanded in an occupant crush protection area formed in front of an occupant in case of front collision and a cover body is provided on a motorcycle as a motorbike. The cover body can cover and uncover a handle and the airbag, and is torn at a thinned portion when the second component part of the airbag is deployed and expanded, and thus the second component part is uncovered.