Inflatable protector bag or vehicle safety device

Claim 1

An inflatable protector bag of a vehicle safety device for protecting a vehicle occupant during a collision of the vehicle, formed of a yielding and gas-impermeable material and having a collapsed inoperative condition and an expanded and unloaded operative condition having, when unloaded, a generally hexahedral configuration which consists of a first rectangular sheet section having first and second pairs of parallel sides, a second rectangular sheet section substantially normal to said first rectangular sheet section and having first and second pairs of parallel sides, one of the first pair of parallel sides of the second rectangular sheet section being common to one side of the first of parallel sides of said first rectangular sheet sections, a first substantially isosceles triangular sheet section opposite to said first rectangular sheet section and having a base common to the other side of said first pair of parallel sides of said second rectangular sheet section and substantially equilateral sides meeting at a vertex, a second substantially isosceles triangular sheet section opposite to said second rectangular sheet section and having a base common to the other side of said first pair of parallel sides of said first rectangular sheet section and substantially equilateral sides meeting each other at said vertex, and first and second substantially congruent, scalene quadrilateral sheet sections which are opposite to each other and which have respective first sides common to said second pair of parallel sides of said firt rectangular sheet section, respective second sides common to said second pair of parallel sides of said second rectangular sheet section, respective third sides common to said equilateral sides of said first triangular sheet section and meeting each other at said vertex, and respective fourth sides common to said equilateral sides of said second triangular sheet section and meeting each other at said vertex.