Patent ID: 6918613

Claim:
An air bag module comprising: an air bag canister having a side wall, the side wall having a gas channel port therein to communicate with ambient air pressure; an air bag cushion attached to the air bag canister; an inflator attached to the air bag canister for providing gas, a deployment door attached to the air bag canister; a structural gas channel connected to the side wall proximate the gas channel port and configured to communicate with the gas channel port to provide venting of gas provided by the inflator to ambient air when the air bag cushion is in a substantially non-deployed condition; and a venting system connecting the structural gas channel to the gas channel port, the venting system having a plug and a plug pulling system connecting the air bag cushion and the plug; wherein when the air bag cushion is deployed the plug pulling system pulls the plug into the gas channel port to prevent gas from venting therethrough.