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In an inflatable occupant-restraint system in a vehicle, a generator for producing fluid under pressure is so placed that a portion of the generator is outside the cushion and has a resilient venting means for dumping increasing fractions of gas volume outside the cushion at increasing operating tem

In an inflatable occupant-restraint system in a vehicle, a generator for producing fluid under pressure is so placed that a portion of the generator is outside the cushion and has a resilient venting means for dumping increasing fractions of gas volume outside the cushion at increasing operating temperatures.

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A passive occupant-restraint system comprising (a) an inflatable cushion, (b) a fluid generator operatively connected to said cushion, (c) means to fire said generator and create inflation fluid, (d) discharge ports in said generator directing flow of inflation fluid into said cushion, and (e) means

A passive occupant-restraint system comprising (a) an inflatable cushion, (b) a fluid generator operatively connected to said cushion, (c) means to fire said generator and create inflation fluid, (d) discharge ports in said generator directing flow of inflation fluid into said cushion, and (e) means coaxial with said generator to vent fluid directly therefrom and beyond said cushion and responsive to an increase in operating temperature, said venting means having a flexible web terminating in an axially extending rib fitting within the end of said generator and moveable substantially axially from that position closing the end of said generator to an open position in response to said increase.