Patent ID: 7793921

Claim:
A motion-restraint arrangement comprising a number of individual elements ( 12 ) which are erectable by spring elements ( 20 ) from a thinly compressed, small-volume storage condition into a large-volume active condition, each said respective individual element ( 12 ) having flexible lateral edge elements ( 16 , 18 ) comprising flexible transverse edge elements ( 18 ) and flexible longitudinal edge elements ( 16 ) which in the erected active condition thereof each define a respective parallelepiped ( 14 ), the spring elements ( 20 ) extend in spatially diagonal relationship between corners ( 22 ) of each respective parallelepiped ( 14 ), the individual elements ( 12 ) jointly forming an elongate line of elements ( 10 ), wherein the spatially diagonal spring elements ( 20 ) are formed by spring wires ( 24 ) which extend in a zigzag shape in a longitudinal direction along the elongate line of elements ( 10 ); and wherein each said respective zigzag-shaped spring wire ( 24 ) extends integrally with respect to the material thereof along the elongate line of said individual elements ( 10 ).