Patent ID: 8764050

Claim:
A device for a passenger protection system of a vehicle, which comprises: an oblong gas generator which is formed and provided to provide gas for inflating a gas bag in the case of activation, wherein the gas generator includes at least one firmly arranged stay bolt protruding from a shell surface of the gas generator, a sleeve-shaped gas conducting element connected with the gas generator, which is formed and provided to divert gas flowing out of the gas generator and guide the same into a gas bag to be inflated, wherein the gas conducting element is connected with at least one of the stay bolts of the gas generator by means of a bayonet connector, for forming a bayonet connector the gas conducting element forms at least one joining channel for the at least one stay bolt of the gas generator, and in the region in which it forms the at least one joining channel the gas conducting element is at least partly formed by a tab axially protruding from a peripheral wall of the gas conducting element, wherein the gas conducting element includes means for locking the bayonet connector, wherein the means for locking the bayonet connector comprise a bendable tab arranged at the gas conducting element, by means of which the bayonet connector can be secured by bending the bendable tab after reaching the end position of the stay bolt is reached.