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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1999
Christian Amann, Munchen, DE;
BSRS Restraint Systems GmbH, Alzenau, DE;
Abstract
A passive restraint system for a motor vehicle has at least one airbag module assigned to a vehicle seat (2) to provide lateral protection of the head area of a person sitting in the vehicle and secured therein by a safety belt as an additional passive retraining component. The airbag module has at least one gas generator and a gas sack (1). In response to an actuating signal the gas generator immediately sends gas into the gas sack. In one embodiment the gas sack is designed in such a way and is so shaped that it catches the safety belt (5), optionally with a predetermined amount of slack, once the signal has been emitted, lifts it from its resting position on the person (6), and absorbs belt slack with the increase in volume. The result is that the belt (5) prevents the fully inflated gas sack (1) from swinging laterally outward, so that the head area of the person (6), which is immersed in the gas sack (1), does not substantially move out of the passenger compartment (8) profile.