Patent ID: 7207596
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A motor vehicle comprising: a body structure that has a lateral structure, a vehicle seat that is fastened to the body structure, and a side impact protection device for a passenger in the vehicle, the side impact protection device including a head airbag, with a first inflation device that can deploy upward in a region of a breastwork of the lateral structure, and a side airbag, with a second inflation device that can deploy laterally from the seat, wherein the side airbag is designed as a thorax airbag which, in a ready position, is arranged, together with the second inflation device, inside a seat back of the vehicle seat, and which can deploy out of a side wall of the seat back essentially toward a front, and wherein, when the thorax airbag is in its deployed state, its upper edge comes to rest next to the breastwork of the lateral structure, and wherein the head airbag with the first inflation device is positioned directly below the breastwork.