Apparatus for actuating the safety devices for vehicle occupants

An apparatus for actuating a plurality of safety devices equipped in a vehicle for protecting occupants from an impact of a collision, comprising:

• a plurality of squibs included in said plurality of safety devices respectively, which are connected in series with each other so as to form a series circuit, said series circuit having no bypass means in parallel to said squibs for supplying an igniting energy to said squibs, and ignited by a current flowing therethrough and conforming to one and the same standard with respect to each other,
• a power source for supplying electrical energy to said series circuit, and
• a collision detector for allowing a current to flow from the power source to said series circuit when detecting a collision;
• wherein
• a required energy for igniting all of said squibs in said series circuit is supplied to said squibs from said power source before said series circuit opens electrically at any one squib of said plurality of squibs.