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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2000
John P. Wallner, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
TRW Vehicle Safety Systems Inc., Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Abstract
Apparatus (,) for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle (,) which has a side structure (,) and a roof (,) comprises an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device (,). The inflatable vehicle occupant protection device (,) is inflatable away from the vehicle roof (,) into a position between the side structure (,) of the vehicle (,) and a vehicle occupant. An inflation fluid source (,) provides inflation fluid for inflating the inflatable vehicle occupant protection device (,). A plurality of arc-shaped connections (,) define a plurality of arc-shaped chambers (,) of the inflatable vehicle occupant protection device. Each of the arc-shaped chambers (,) includes an arc-shaped upper side wall defined by one of the arc-shaped connections (,) and an arc-shaped lower side wall defined by another of the arc-shaped connections. The arc-shaped chambers (,) are positioned vertically adjacent to each other such that the lower side wall of one of the arc-shaped chambers forms the upper side wall of an adjacent arc-shaped chamber.