Patent ID: 7478831

Claim:
An airbag module for a motor vehicle, comprising: an airbag that can be inflated with gas in order to restrain an occupant and upon inflation move in a main deployment direction toward the occupant; an inflow orifice of the airbag through which the airbag can be inflated with gas; a continuously running marginal region that defines a plane; a gas generator that generates the gas for inflating the airbag, wherein the gas emerges from at least one gas outlet orifice of the gas generator and passes through the inflow orifice into the airbag; a generator carrier for carrying the gas generator, the generator carrier having a base that extends along the surface defined by the marginal region of the inflow orifice and to which the gas generator is fastened, the base separating an inside space of the airbag module away from the main deployment direction from an outside space surrounding the airbag module; a surface defined by the marginal region of the inflow orifice spaced apart in the main deployment direction from the base of the generator carrier; a continuously running wall protruding from the base along the main deployment direction, wherein the wall has at least one first outflow orifice through which gas emerging from the gas outlet orifice of the gas generator can pass into the outside space of the airbag module; and a cylindrical ring with a clearance being arranged displaceably on the wall in a movement direction running around the wall, wherein the clearance is able to be brought into congruence with the first outflow orifice as a result of a displacement of the cylindrical ring in the movement direction to open the first outflow orifice.