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Airbag module

US7513527B2 · kind B2 · utility

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39Claims

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Assignee

TAKATA-PETRI AG · DE

Inventors

Thomas Lube · Berlin, DE
Dirk Meissner · Berlin, DE
Heiko Hofmann · Berlin, DE
Andreas Winkler · Duisburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 10, 2007
Grant date	Apr 7, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 10, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60R2021/2765
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An airbag module for a motor vehicle having an airbag which can be inflated with gas through an inflation opening in order to protect an occupant, and having a gas generator with which the gas for inflating the airbag can be generated, said gas emerging from at least one gas outlet opening of the gas generator and passing into the airbag through the inflation opening, the airbag module having, according to the invention, a first outflow opening which is assigned an element which can move between at least two different positions and by the movement of which between the two positions the first outflow opening can be connected in a gas-conducting manner to the gas outlet opening of the gas generator so that the gas which flows out through the gas outlet opening is conducted at least partially into the outer space.

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