Patent ID: 7000944

Claim:
Apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle that has a roof and a windshield extending from a driver side A pillar to a passenger side A pillar of the vehicle, said apparatus comprising: an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device having a stored position extending along a forward edge of the vehicle roof; and an inflation fluid source that is actuatable to provide inflation fluid for inflating said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device; said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device being inflatable from said stored position to a deployed position overlying the windshield, said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device while in said deployed position having a panel extending along the windshield from the driver side A pillar to the passenger side A pillar and angularly along the windshield from an upper edge of the windshield to adjacent an intersection of an instrument panel of the vehicle and the windshield, said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device while in said deployed position also covering the driver side A pillar and the passenger side A pillar.