Patent ID: 6799774
Filing Date: 2004-10-05
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
An airbag module for an occupant restraint system in a vehicle, comprising a housing molded of plastics and having a bottom wall and a peripheral wall extending from the bottom wall, a gas generator attached to the bottom wall, an airbag attached to the peripheral wall and a cover cap also attached to the peripheral wall, wherein the airbag has an attachment collar with peripherally spaced attachment openings therein, the peripheral wall has an outer surface with integrally molded latching noses thereon that pass through respective ones of said attachment openings, the cover cap has a connection wall fitted over the attachment collar of the airbag and over the peripheral wall of the housing, and the connection wall has peripherally spaced cutouts corresponding in number and shape to said latching noses which engage into said cutouts, said connection wall having an outer surface, said latching noses when engaging into said cutouts being flush with said outer surface of said connection wall, said latching noses each have a stop surface interacting with an adjacent delimitation edge of one of said cutouts for preventing unlatching of said covering cap from said housing due to a movement in a first direction, and said latching noses each have a latching edge interacting with an adjacent latching surface of one of said cutouts for preventing unlatching of said covering cap from said housing due to a movement in a second direction opposite to said first direction.