Patent ID: 8246076
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. An airbag arrangement for a vehicle occupant restraining system, comprising: at least one inflatable airbag for protection of a vehicle occupant; and an inflating device for inflating the airbag, wherein the airbag comprises: wherein the first inflatable area has in the inflated status of the airbag a larger thickness perpendicular to a main extension plane of the airbag than a thickness of the second inflatable area, wherein the inflating device and the airbag are designed for inflating the first inflatable area of the airbag to such a high internal pressure that during impact of the vehicle occupant on the airbag a force is exerted onto the first body region of the vehicle occupant which sets the vehicle occupant into a tilting motion, wherein the third inflatable area has a larger thickness than the thickness of the second inflatable area, the thicknesses of the first, second, and third inflatable areas being measured perpendicular to the main extension plane of the airbag, and wherein, in the inflated status of the airbag, the first inflatable area comprises an extension in a vehicle longitudinal direction of a vehicle larger than an extension of the second inflatable area in the vehicle longitudinal direction and the extension of the second inflatable area in the vehicle longitudinal direction is larger than an extension of the third inflatable area in the vehicle longitudinal direction, thereby generating a bevelled front side of the airbag following a contour of an upper arm of the vehicle occupant so that, when the vehicle occupant strikes the airbag during the impact, the upper arm of the vehicle occupant does not couple to the airbag or couples partially to the airbag.