Patent ID: 6851703

Claim:
In combination with an airbag module having an airbag and a gas generator assigned to the airbag, a housing configuration, comprising: a housing having an airbag-accommodating space and a gas-generator-accommodating space formed therein; said housing having an upper housing wall with an airbag outlet opening formed therein and having a covering device, said covering device being configured to close said airbag outlet opening when the airbag module is in a non-activated basic position and to open up said airbag outlet opening so that the airbag deploys freely when the airbag module is in an activated state; said gas-generator-accommodating space accommodating the gas generator, said airbag-accommodating space accommodating the airbag such that the airbag is disposed folded up in said airbag-accommodating space behind said covering device when the airbag module is in the non-activated basic position; said airbag outlet opening defining an airbag outlet opening plane, said airbag-accommodating space being situated, with reference to the airbag outlet opening plane, laterally next to said gas-generator-accommodating space; said housing having a lower housing wall region disposed opposite said covering device and bounding said airbag-accommodating space; said housing having a gas-generator-accommodating-space housing wall extending substantially parallel to said lower housing wall region; a partition wall separating said airbag-accommodating space from said gas-generator-accommodating space, said partition wall extending in a direction away from said upper housing wall into an interior of said housing as far as said lower housing wall region; said lower housing wall region and said gas-generator-accommodating-space housing wall together forming a gas-duct segment configured such that gas is guided along an airbag emergence direction away from a housing side opposite the airbag outlet opening plane and into the airbag; and said gas duct segment being disposed in said housing on the housing side opposite the airbag outlet opening plane, said gas duct segment extending substantially parallel to said airbag outlet opening plane and extending, when viewed in cross section through said housing, from said gas-generator-accommodating space to said airbag-accommodating space.