Occupant restraint system located in the rear passenger compartment of a motor vehicle

US7204510B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Alban Bossenmaier · Herrenberg, DE
• Ulrich Bruhnke · Ehningen, DE
• Klaus Frenzel · Stuttgart, DE
• Murat Guenak · Ehningen, DE
• Joerg Hensel · Sindelfingen, DE
• Peter Martin Maly · Reinbek, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 1, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 17, 2007
• Expiry date: Jun 1, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/23153
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In order to provide an occupant restraint system located in the rear passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, which system increases the safety of vehicle occupants and at the same time can be produced simply and therefore cost-effectively, an occupant restraint system located in the rear passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, having a side airbag module which comprises a gas bag and a gas generator and is arranged next to that side of a rear seat which faces the side body is proposed, a cover being provided in front of the side airbag module in the direction of travel, and the cover consisting of elastically deformable material and being an integral component of a side member of the rear seat or of an arm support arranged in the region of the side body.