Patent ID: 7938439

Claim:
A safety device for the protection of vehicle occupants, comprising a curtain airbag located in the area of the roof frame along the side of the vehicle interior, wherein the airbag is rolled up in an undeployed state and is unrolled in a deployed state in case of a potential accident and which can be filled with a gas, the curtain airbag forming an upper edge, and wherein the curtain airbag when in the undeployed state is rolled around the upper edge around a shaft into a roll and that fixing elements support the upper edge such that the airbag is rotatable between the undeployed state and the deployed state in which the airbag is unrolled, and unrolling means for acting on a lower edge of the curtain airbag in case of a potential accident for unrolling the airbag from the undeployed state to the deployed state and causing the shaft to rotate.