Patent ID: 8297648

Claim:
An occupant restraint device for a motor vehicle comprising: a first airbag, which is inflatable with gas to protect an occupant who occupies a driver's seat or a front passenger seat of the motor vehicle, wherein the first airbag is designed to be arranged in a steering wheel or an instrument panel of the motor vehicle in its non-inflated state, and a second airbag, which is inflatable to protect the occupant, wherein the second airbag is designed such that said second airbag extends with an edge area thereof facing a vehicle front in an inflated state along an extending angularly A-pillar of the motor vehicle, wherein the second airbag in the inflated state extends along a lateral vehicle body, wherein the second airbag comprises in the inflated state said edge area continuing along the A-pillar, wherein said edge area nestles tightly against the A-pillar so that the occupant can slide along the second airbag so that said occupant strikes the first airbag and not the A-pillar extending angularly behind thereof, and wherein the second airbag is arranged and adapted to rest with its edge area in the inflated state against an edge area of the inflated first airbag extending along a vertical vehicle axis and facing the lateral motor vehicle body.