Actuating device for a safety means
AssigneeTRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsKarl Birk, Uwe Class, Reiner Dannenhauer, Michael Lüders, Thomas Miodek, Thomas Hasbach
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Abstract
An actuating device for a safety arrangement in a vehicle has a pneumatic muscle as a drive and a pyrotechnical gas generator for feeding the pneumatic muscle.
Claims1
An assembly comprising a safety apparatus and an actuating device, said actuating device comprising a drive and a pyrotechnic gas generator for, when actuated, actuating said drive, said safety apparatus including a raisable engine hood which can be transferred from an initial position into a raised position by said actuating device, said drive comprising a radially expandable, tubular body, said tubular body longitudinally contracting upon radial expansion of said tubular body to raise said engine hood.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.