Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Christian Maurer

Jan Urbahn

Willibald Watzka

Dienhung Huynh

Andrea Link

Michael Hattensperger

Martin Eigenmann

Robert Janssen

Reinhold Schreff

Michael Niess

Andreas Geltinger

An airbag housing can be detachably fixed to at least one abutting wall area via at least one fixing device. The airbag housing has a plurality of tongues protruding laterally outwards on at least two opposing sides. The tongues arranged next to one another on one side are each spaced from the next by the width of at least one tongue. For the tongues of the airbag housing, a fixing frame on the dashboard has corresponding undercuts, and therefore the fixed airbag module is connected to the tongues in a form-locking manner in the undercuts.

Motor vehicle with an airbag module

In a method of triggering a vehicle occupant restraining device, at least one sensor signal generated by a crash sensor is supplied to an analyzing device, which determines the crash severity, and a time for the triggering of the restraining device based on the crash severity. When a first low crash severity occurs, a timer is started and the restraining device is triggered by the analyzing unit only when a higher crash severity is reached during the running time of the timer.

Method of triggering a vehicle occupant restraining device

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Munich, Georgia

Christian Maurer