摘要 |
Provided is a vehicular side airbag device having a side airbag that can slide quickly and smoothly into a gap between an occupant and a vehicle side section, and that allows restraining the occupant by reaching instantly the particularly wide shoulder and waist; at the same time, the side airbag can be inflated such that the thickness of the portion thereof that protects the peripheries of the skeletally firm shoulder and waist is small and the thickness of the portion that protects the periphery of the skeletally weak chest is large. Inside a side airbag, there are provided: a rapid chamber extending from a seat back region over a top region and a bottom region that taper gradually towards the vehicle front; a delay chamber that is positioned between the top region and bottom region, on the vehicle-front side of the seat back region; and a partitioning member that partitions the interior of the side airbag into the delay chamber and the rapid chamber. An inflator is provided inside the rapid chamber. |