Patent ID: 7246816
Filing Date: 2007-07-24
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A gas bag module for a motor vehicle steering wheel, the gas bag module comprising a gas bag, a gas generator mounted so as to be capable of swinging in order to amortize vibrations, a generator carrier, means for bracing the gas bag on the generator carrier, and an elastically deformable, in relation to a central axis of the gas bag module encircling sealing element, the sealing element being fastened by free edge portions of said sealing element directly or indirectly to the gas generator and to the generator carrier, respectively, in order to seal an interior of the gas bag from a space between the gas generator and the generator carrier before and on filling of the gas bag, a middle section of the sealing element, which is free before the filling of the gas bag, being deflected by the pressure occurring in the interior of the gas bag on filling of the gas bag, so that the middle section comes directly or indirectly in abutment with a support surface, the middle section of the sealing element being constructed in a wave-form and projecting between the gas generator and the support surface.