Protective installation, especially for the passengers of motor vehicles
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorHelmut Patzelt
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Abstract
A protective installation, especially for the passengers of motor vehicles, which is equipped with an air bag automatically inflatable by means of a gas when exceeding a predetermined vehicle deceleration; an insert which, in relation to the main flow direction of the gas, is disposed at a distance to the bag bottom during the inflation and which extends transversely to the main flow direction of the gas is thereby coordinated to the air bag; the insert forms in its area disposed in the main gas flow a baffle surface for the inflowing gas; the air bag is thereby securely connected with the insert within the area of its bottom facing the passenger while the insert is also anchored at a relatively fixed vehicle part by elastic retaining means.
Claims7
In a protective installation, especially for the passengers of motor vehicles, which includes an air bag means automatically inflatable by means of a gas upon exceeding a predetermined vehicle deceleration, and an insert means coordinated to the air bag means which during the inflation is disposed at a distance to the bag bottom, in relation to the main flow direction of the gas and extends essentially transversely to the main flow direction of the gas, said insert means forming in the area thereof disposed in the main flow of the gas a baffle surface for the inflowing gas, and the air bag means being securely connected with the insert means within the area of its bottom facing the passenger, the improvement comprising elastic retaining means for anchoring said insert means at a relatively fixed vehicle part, said elastic retaining means including strips of the fabric material of said air bag means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.