Autoliv Development Ab

Marcin Wiaderny

Marc Schock

Roland Peiz

Alexander Gulde

Jens Hoffmann

Armin Kränzle

Peter Gerisch

Reinhard Böswirth

Stefan Taubert

Anna Gawlowska

Michal Skibinski

Marek Sofinski

An airbag module having an airbag and an inflation device, wherein at least one rebound strap for controlling the inflation of the airbag is disposed in the airbag and attached to portions of the airbag that move away from each other when the airbag is inflated. A first, shorter rebound strip segment breaks after a first inflation stage and subsequently the airbag regions separate from each other until the second, longer segment of the rebound strap is tensioned and the inflation stage of the airbag is predefined by the second, longer segment of the rebound strap. The rebound strap thereof is formed from a uniform textile segment, the first, shorter segment of the rebound strap is formed as a tab cut out of the second, longer segment the tab being narrower and shorter than the second, longer segment of the rebound strap.

Airbag having a single-piece rebound strap defining two inflation stages

A front passenger airbag () is described for arrangement in the instrument panel () of a motor vehicle. It has an airbag envelope () having an impact area () and lateral surfaces extending from the impact area (). In order to use small gas generators and to reduce the danger for a passenger in a non-standard seating position, the impact area () is nearly exclusively allocated to the front passenger's (I) head or head and shoulder area, the impact area () having a concave shape when the airbag envelope () is fully expanded and free of external forces, such that a left and right section of the impact area () respectively extend farther into the interior of the motor vehicle than a central section.

Passenger front airbag

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Wroclaw, Poland

Marcin Wiaderny