Abstract: A knee restraint means for occupants of a vehicle with a footwell for the feet of the occupant includes a gas bag in the footwell, a gas generator, a knee cushion on which the occupant impacts in case of an accident, and an inflatable gas bag cover with an outer surface and of energy-absorbent material. The gas bag cover is deformed in a crash situation by inflation of the gas bag in the direction of the footwell. The gas bag cover forms the knee cushion together with the inflated gas bag.

Abstract: A gas bag module for a vehicle occupant restraining system comprises a gas generator and a gas bag having an inflation opening formed in a wall of the gas bag and having an interior delimited by the wall. The gas bag is able to be unfolded from a folded state into a deployed state by means of gas under pressure provided by the gas generator and led into the interior of the gas bag through the inflation opening. The gas bag module comprises at least one guard flap arranged in the interior of the gas bag between the inflation opening and a portion of the wall opposite the inflation opening. The at least one guard flap protects the wall of the gas bag against the gas under pressure entering the interior of the gas bag.

Abstract: A vehicle seat for a vehicle occupant has a backrest, a headrest arranged adjustable on the backrest and being movable from a normal starting position into a restraint position approximating the head of the vehicle occupant, a vehicle-sensitive activatable positioner and a flexible traction transmitting means connecting the headrest and the positioner. The positioner moves the headrest in the case of a rear end collision of the vehicle from the normal starting position into the restraint position by transmitting force via the traction transmitting means. The traction transmitting means extends through the backrest.

Abstract: An attachment device for securing a gas bag module to a vehicle part is provided. The gas bag module has a housing with at least one receiving opening in the housing. The attached device includes at least one nut which is received in the receiving opening. The nut is fixed to the housing so as to be non-rotatable but substantially linearly displaceable with respect to the housing so that a guide for the housing is formed. The gas bag module further includes at least one bolt screwed into the nut for attaching the gas bag module to the vehicle part. The bolt, in cooperation with the nut and the opening, serves for connecting the gas bag module to the vehicle part.

Abstract: A belt tensioner for a seat belt includes a piston/cylinder unit. The tube of the unit has a wall which is flattened in the region of its fastening end to form a fastening flange. The fastening end is engagable by a fastener for attaching said belt tensioner to the vehicle or the vehicle seat.

Abstract: A belt buckle for a seat belt connected to a fitting part having an insert tongue, the buckle includes a load-bearing frame comprising an upper part and a lower part substantially parallel thereto, between which an insert tongue of said fitting part can be received and which are formed by bending of an elongated plate-type part. The upper and the lower parts each having a free end and side edges and being interlocked with each other in the region of their free ends by at least one portion of one of the upper part and the lower part being bent around an adjoining portion of the corresponding other part at each of the two side edges.

Abstract: A vehicular safety device for actuation of an occupant restraint means includes a cylinder tube having an axis, a cylinder wall with an outer envelope surface and a through-opening in the cylinder wall, a pyrotechnical gas generator material disposed in the interior of the cylinder tube adjoining the cylinder wall and an electrical igniter. The pyrotechnical gas generator material generates gas upon inflation for actuating the restraint means. The igniter is configured as an elongated body extending parallel to the axis and is applied to the outside of the envelope surface of the cylinder tube opposite the through-opening.

Abstract: A linear actuator for a vehicle occupant restraint system is provided, which comprises a cylinder and a pulling element connected to the cylinder by means of a holding part. The linear actuator further comprises a piston which is shiftable within the cylinder and has a locking part. The locking part including a sealing part coaxial with to the locking part and a conical outer section. The conical outer section has an axial end at a side facing the sealing part and is provided with a peripheral groove at this axial end. Still further, the linear actuator comprises a plurality of locking bodies shiftably arranged between the conical outer section of the locking part and the inner wall of the cylinder.

Abstract: A gas bag lateral impact protective device for vehicle occupants is provided. The gas bag lateral impact protective device is integrated in a vehicle door and includes a compressed gas source and a head protecting gas bag which is to be inflated by the compressed gas source and which deploys on inflation in a space to the side of the vehicle door. The head protecting gas bag is connected with the vehicle door by a peripheral portion of an inflation opening and in addition by an attachment part which, with respect to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, is spaced from the inflation opening.

Abstract: A vehicle steering wheel has an integrated vehicle occupant restraining system comprised of a gas generator with a bracing section and a gas bag with a inlet opening, an edge portion of the inlet opening constituting a holding section. The vehicle steering wheel comprises a hub and a steering wheel body with a gas bag cover which is an integral part of the steering wheel body. A bracing surface is formed on the hub and a holding surface is formed on the steering wheel body. The holding section of the gas bag and the bracing section of the gas generator are clamped between the holding surface of the steering wheel body and the bracing surface of the hub by bracing the hub against a steering wheel body.

Abstract: An adjusting device for a deflection fitting of a vehicle safety belt system includes a rail provided with catch openings, and a slider mounted displaceably in the rail. The slider is adapted for connection to the deflection fitting and is provided with a detent mechanism for cooperation with the catch openings. The slider is further provided with a locking element which is functionally independent of the detent mechanism. The locking element is mounted at the slider pivotally between a neutral position in which it does not engage the rail, and a locking position in which it engages the rail and locks the slider in place.

Abstract: A belt buckle with a fastener fitting for vehicle-fixed mounting comprising a carrier plate fixedly connected to the belt buckle. The carrier plate being connected to the fastener fitting. The carrier plate includes an opening by which the carrier plate is mounted rotatably on a pin extending through the opening and fixed to the fastener fitting. A return element is provided which urges the belt buckle relative to the fastener fitting rotationally about the centerline of the pin and rotationally about an axis perpendicular to the centerline of the pin and to the longitudinal axis of the belt buckle into a resting position.

Abstract: A means for fastening a first part of a gas bag module of a vehicle occupant restraint system to a second part of the gas bag module is provided. The first part is provided with a holding opening, and the second part is provided with an insertion opening whose diameter substantially corresponding to the diameter of the holding opening. The means comprises a metallic fastening sleeve which extends through the holding opening and the insertion opening and has a first axial end associated with the first part, a second axial end associated with the second part, and a longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A belt tensioner for a 3-point vehicular seat belt system comprises a belt webbing, a belt retractor as a first anchoring point, a belt buckle as a second anchoring point, an end fitting as a third anchoring point of the seat belt system and a tensioner drive. To offer various possibilities of accommodation even under restricted space availability conditions in the vehicle, the tensioner drive engages the end fitting, or the webbing next to the end fitting. Upon activation of the tensioner drive, the tensioner drive exerts tension on the belt webbing.

Abstract: A belt retractor for a vehicle occupant restraining system comprises a load bearing frame provided with a sleeve-like cylindrical boss. The cylindrical boss has an external screw thread on which a nut may be screwed for the attachment of the belt retractor on the vehicle. An elongated guide pin extends through the cylindrical boss to provide for guidance of the nut.

Abstract: A linear drive for a belt pretensioner is provided. The linear drive includes a cylinder tube with a hollow inner space, a pyrotechnic drive charge which generates a pressurized gas, and a piston able to be displaced in the inner space of the cylinder tube under the action of the pressurized gas. The piston has a hollow interior space and an axial end having an end wall. The end wall has a passage opening which is closed by a blow-out patch.

Abstract: A gas bag restraining module having a housing (10), an inflation device (12) located in the latter, said inflation device providing a volume of pressurized gas after activation, and having a folded gas bag (50), which has an attachment section fixed to the housing (10) and surrounding an inflation aperture, should be adapted to the use of an inflation device, which is known in the form of a "heated gas inflator". For this purpose, the invention provides that the inflation device has a cylindrical pressurized gas container (12), the housing (10) is formed with a trough-shaped base to accommodate the pressurized gas container (12) and a box-shaped upper section, the attachment section of the gas bag (50) is provided with an attachment frame (40) and the attachment frame (40) is inserted in the upper section of the housing (10).

Abstract: A passenger side gas bag comprises an envelope part and two lateral parts connected therewith. The envelope part and the two lateral parts are formed from an integral blank (10) of flat textile fabric. The blank comprises an elongated middle section (12), corresponding to the envelope part, and two flaps (14a, 14b) corresponding to the lateral parts and joined to its middle portion. Each flap is sewn along its edge to the adjacent longitudinal edge of the middle section (12).

Abstract: A force limiting device for use in a safety belt retractor. The retractor has a hollow belt spool. A shaft axially extends through the belt spool. A pair of ratchet wheels are each connected to one axial end of the shaft. An internally threaded nut is coaxially accommodated within and connected to the belt spool for joint rotation and relative axial displacement. The shaft is externally threaded and engaged with the nut. The shaft has an axial abutment, and an energy dissipating sleeve of plastically deformable material is engaged axially between the nut and the axial abutment.

Abstract: An attachment device for a vehicle steering wheel to a steering shaft is provided, the steering wheel comprising a hub for connection to an end of the steering shaft, the hub and the steering shaft being connected with each other in a non-rotatable manner. The attachment device further comprises a bolt or a threaded nut accomodated rotatably at the hub but being held in an axial direction. The bolt and the nut, respectively, engage the end of the steering shaft in order to interlock the hub and the steering shaft. The attachment device furthermore comprises an engaging element cooperating with the bolt and the nut, respectively, and being provided with an engaging configuration for a clamping tool, the engaging configuration being accessible from outside of the hub.