Protecting apparatus

US5707075A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• MST Automotive GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Josef Kraft · Starnberg, DE
• Hermann Reulein · Neuss, DE
• Joachim Franz · Friesenheim, DE
• Martin Kreuzer · Kleinwallstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 25, 1994
• Grant date: Jan 13, 1998
• Expiry date: Apr 25, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R21/08
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

For the protection of the occupants of a vehicle in case of a lateral impact, restraints (3) are integrated in the side structure of the vehicle and are adapted to be automatically stretched to extend tautly on the inside across the window opening and are connected to an airbag unit (25) for protection in case of an impact, which unit is accommodated adjacent to the side structure of the vehicle.