Trw Vehicle Safety Systems Inc.

Detlef Last

Kurt F Fischer

Karl Englbrecht

An apparatus () includes an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device () and an inflator () for providing inflation fluid for inflating the protection device. The inflator () includes an inflation fluid control structure (). The control structure () includes discharge openings () for directing inflation fluid into an inflatable volume () of the protection device () and vent openings () for venting inflation fluid outside the inflatable volume. The control structure () also includes a vent member () actuatable from an open condition permitting inflation flow through the vent openings () to a closed condition blocking inflation fluid flow through the vent openings.

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Mühldorf, Germany

Detlef Last