Patent ID: 7726684

Claim:
An airbag deployment system for a vehicle having a passenger compartment, comprising: a plurality of film airbags arranged to substantially fill the passenger compartment upon deployment; a plurality of housings arranged around the passenger compartment, each of said housings including at least one of said airbags; a plurality of inflator systems for inflating said airbags, at least one of said inflator systems being an aspirated inflator system, each of said at least one aspirated inflator system being associated with one of said housings and arranged to combine pressurized gas and gas from the passenger compartment and direct the combined gas into said at least one airbag of said housing; and an anticipatory crash sensor system coupled to said inflator systems for predicting impact of an object with the vehicle and directing said inflator systems to inflate at least some of said airbags based on the predicted impact, and wherein at least one of said airbags includes a plurality of cells or chambers which extend when deployed in a longitudinal row down a center of the vehicle between lateral sides of the vehicle.