Safety system for occupants of a motor vehicle
OwnerHerbert Boegge, Alfons Maesing +2inventors
InventorsHerbert Boegge, Alfons Maesing, Leo Linder, Frank Mueller
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Abstract
A safety system intended for an occupant of a motor vehicle is in the form of a protective bag which can be filled with gas. In a moved-in condition, the bag is folded together in a packet and, in an inflated condition, the bag extends along an interior side of a side window in order to protect a head region of an adjacent sitting occupant against an impact. To improve functioning of the safety device and reduce a space requirement, the packet is fully immersed in a door body of the door, and the protective bag unfolds during inflation from the door body, in a direction of a roof, essentially along the door window.
Claims21
A safety system for a motor vehicle in the form of a protective bag which can be filled with gas and which, in a moved-in condition, is folded together in a packet and, in an inflated condition, extends along an interior side of a door window of a door of a vehicle body in order to protect a head region of an adjacent sitting occupant against an impact, wherein the packet is arranged to be fully immersed in a door body of the door, and wherein the protective bag unfolds during inflation from the door body in a direction of a roof essentially along the door window.
A process of operating a safety system for a motor vehicle comprising filling, with gas, a protective bag which, in a moved-in condition, is folded together in a packet arranged to be fully immersed in a door body of a door of a vehicle body so that the protective bag unfolds during inflation from the door body in a direction of a roof essentially along a door window and extends along an interior side of the door window in order to protect a head region of an adjacent sitting occupant against an impact in an inflated condition.
A motor vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a door and a door window of the door, and
- a safety system in the form of a protective bag which can be filled with gas and which, in a moved-in condition, is folded together in a packet and, in an inflated condition, extends along an interior side of the door window of the door of the vehicle body in order to protect a head region of an adjacent sitting occupant against an impact,
- wherein the packet is arranged to be fully immersed in a door body of the door, and
- wherein the protective bag unfolds during inflation from the door body in a direction of a roof essentially along the door window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.