49results about "Pedestrian/occupant safety arrangement" patented technology

A method of monitoring operation of a vehicle detects an application of force to the vehicle and a change of momentum of the vehicle is calculated. If the change of momentum and the application of force are determined to occur within a predetermined time period of one another, an impact signal is generated.

An actuation mechanism is used with the deployment apparatus mounting a running board on an automotive vehicle for laterally outward movement to increase rollover resistance for the vehicle. The actuation mechanism includes a cup with a hollow tube attached thereto to provide a path for the movement of a ball from the cup into engagement with the latching mechanism on the deployment apparatus. The ball is retained within the cup member until the actuation mechanism and the automotive vehicle to which it is mounted tilts to a minimum roll angle, whereupon the ball is released to roll down the hollow tube into engagement with the latching mechanism of the deployment apparatus. In one embodiment, a single cup with a pair of laterally extending tubes directs the ball to the deployment apparatus that requires actuation. In other embodiments, a separate actuation mechanism is provided for each respective deployment apparatus.

A seat back structure with headrest includes a vertical pressure-receiving element and cross pressure-receiving element. The headrest is fixed on a support rod operatively connected via a rotating link with an actuator link assembly. The vertical pressure-receiving element, upon one load being applied thereto from a seat occupant's lumber part, is displaced backwardly and upwardly via guide hole to push the support rod, thereby causing commencement of rotation of the rotating links to move the headrest upwardly. Thereafter, the cross pressure-receiving element, connected with the actuator link assembly, is displaced backwardly, upon another load being applied thereto from a seat occupant's dorsal part, thereby assisting in continuation of the rotation of rotating link.

The disclosed seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus may be used to provide a technology effective for reducing the risk of making a vehicle occupant uncomfortable with regard to the seat belt winding action. A seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus may comprise an electric motor, a spool capable of winding and unwinding a seat belt for occupant restraint, and a controller configured to perform a control mode in which the electric motor is controlled to rotate in a belt winding direction based on the status of a wearing of the seat belt on a vehicle occupant and the status of a vehicle door corresponding to the seat belt.

The present invention provides a hybrid inflator which easily controls the amount of outflow of a pressurized medium or the like is provided. Part of a plurality of nozzles 166 positioned in a flow-passage of a pressurized medium or the like are closed by a tape 160 to be ruptured due to increase of an internal pressure. When the internal pressure is low, the tape 160 is not ruptured, but when the internal pressure is high, the tape 160 is ruptured. Therefore, the opening area of the nozzles 166 are changed in accordance with the change in internal pressure so that the amount of the outflow of the pressurized medium and the like can be controlled.

The invention discloses an air bag restraint device with a plurality of inflating matters, which is embedded on the top of a vehicle and is provided with an air generator and an air bag assembly, wherein the air bag assembly is provided with an air inlet and one or more inflating matters, the air inlet is connected with the air generation, the air bag assembly also comprises an air distribution chamber communicated with the air inlet, a plurality of distribution air outlet channels are arranged on the air distribution chamber, each distribution air outlet channel is in a necking state relative to the air distribution chamber, and the air distribution air outlet channels extend into the corresponding inflating matters and are communicated with the insides of the inflating matters. By using difference of internal and external pressures of the distribution air outlet channels, the distribution air outlet channels are opened and closed, and further the purpose of controlling the air quantity and the pressure inside each inflating matter in an air bag restraint device with the plurality of inflating matters is achieved to ensure that each inflating matter can play a better protection role, and the possibility of explosion of the inflating maters is fundamentally avoided.

The invention provides a pedestrian collision lower limb protection device. The pedestrian collision lower limb protection device comprises a first buffer block, a first telescopic device, a second buffer block, a second telescopic device, an installation bracket, a pedestrian detector and a central controller. The installation bracket is used for being installed on the front portion of an automobile. The first telescopic device is installed on the upper portion of the installation bracket. One end of the first telescopic device is connected with the installation bracket, and the other end of the first telescopic device is connected with the first buffer block. The second telescopic device is installed on the lower portion of the installation bracket. One end of the second telescopic device is connected with the installation bracket, and the other end of the second telescopic device is connected with the second buffer block. The central controller is electrically connected with the first telescopic device, the second telescopic device and the pedestrian detector, receives information transmitted by the pedestrian detector and transmits instructions to the first telescopic device and the second telescopic device. According to the pedestrian collision lower limb protection device, pedestrians with different heights can be well protected during man-automobile collision accidents.

The invention discloses a fabric for a safety air bag and a production method of the fabric. The difference ratio A between the warp crimp ratio of the center of the fabric in the width direction and the warp crimp ratio of the portions, 2 cm away from selvedges, of the two sides of the fabric is smaller than or equal to 19%. The fabric for the safety air bag has the advantages that the crest height of a corrugated edge formed by the two selvedges is small, the difference ratio between the warp crimp ratio of the center of the fabric in the width direction and the warp crimp ratio of the selvedges is small, meanwhile, the loss ratio in the follow-up clipping project is small, and cost is saved.

A decorative member can be readily attached to an airbag cover of an airbag device and attaching workability is enhanced. A decorative member 10 is attached to an attaching part 3 of an airbag cover 1, and engaging projections 13 of the decorative member 10 pass through through-holes in the airbag cover 1 to the back face 1B of the airbag cover 1. A holding member 20 is bent and pressed against the airbag cover 1 side, so that the engaging sections 21 are moved from a state where they are approached to each other between the engaging projections 13, to the direction in which the engaging sections 21 separate from each other. Consequently, the engaging sections 21 are inserted to engaging holes 13K to be engaged with the engaging projections 13. The holding member 20 allows the decorative member 10 to be attached to the airbag cover 1 through the engaging projections 13.

For a vehicle having a brake system, a driver assistance system includes a detection system having at least one sensor configured to output measurement signals, and a control unit configured to receive at least one measurement signal, determine whether the vehicle is in a critical state based on measurement signal(s), and output an external brake request signal to a brake control device of the brake system for priming or biasing the brake system when the vehicle is determined to be in the critical state. The external brake request signal comprises an acceleration setpoint value signal having a higher acceleration setpoint value than a current actual acceleration value of the vehicle.

A passenger restraint system for a vehicle having a plurality of seats, each seat having a seatbelt, a retractor from which the seatbelt is extendable, and a receiver used to latch the seatbelt. Each retractor includes a first pneumatic locking element and a second pneumatic locking element for limiting movement of the seatbelt and each receiver includes a receiver pneumatic locking element for locking the seatbelt within the receiver. A controller controls the operation of a plurality of first valves for supplying air to the first pneumatic locking element of a corresponding one of the plurality of retractors, a second valve for supplying air to each of the second pneumatic locking element of the plurality of retractors, and a plurality of third valves for supplying air to the receiver pneumatic locking element of a corresponding one of the plurality of receivers. Control decisions may be made based upon feedback received from sensors within the receiver that sense a state of the seatbelt with respect to the receiver.

A steering assembly according to the present invention includes connection parts that are formed in a mounting plate body and fixed to a steering wheel module. Accordingly, when the mounting plate assembly is fixed to a steering wheel module, it is possible to attach or detach the mounting plate assembly to or from the steering wheel module. As a result, it is possible to quickly assemble the mounting plate assembly and the steering wheel module.

The invention discloses a safety air bag which comprises an air pocket and two gas generators. The air pocket is divided into a first air chamber and a second air chamber through a separating wall. The two gas generators are respectively used for correspondingly aerating the first air chamber and the second air chamber. The air pocket of the safety air bag is divided into two air chambers, the two gas generators are arranged and respectively used for aerating the two air chambers, and consequently aeration efficiency of the air pocket can be improved and required time that the air pocket is completely unfolded is shortened. Moreover, different ignition timing and aeration pressure can be adopted for the two gas generators. The aeration direction of air can be guided through the air pocket. The aeration direction is changed from a direction facing a passenger to a transverse direction. The aeration time can be shortened, and simultaneously stiffness characteristics of different portions of the air bag can be more flexibly controlled and the head, the neck and the chest of the passenger can be effectively protected from being injured.

The invention discloses a safety reminding device for preventing a driver from falling asleep and being poisoned in a vehicle. The safety reminding device is characterized in that the safety reminding device comprises a power supply module, a speed detection module, a central processing unit, a pressure sensor arranged below a driver seat, a wireless communication module, a temperature detection module, a carbon monoxide sensor, a GPS module, and a telephone module; and the central processing unit comprises a judgment unit, an image processing unit, an early warning unit, a receiving unit, a storage unit and a comparison unit. The safety reminding device can remind the driver in time so that the driver can be prevented from being poisoned; a help telephone number is set, and when the driver asks a police station or a rescue mechanism for help, rescue workers can find the trapped driver and rescue the trapped driver in the shortest time according to positioning of the GPS module after receiving a recording telephone alarm; and the safety reminding device is simple, easy to use, complex in structure and low in cost.

Plastic panels for motor vehicles and methods for making plastic panels are provided herein. In one example, a plastic panel for a motor vehicle comprises a first molded microcellular polymeric substrate and a second polymeric substrate. The first molded microcellular polymeric substrate has a first outer skin, a second outer skin, a microcellular structured core that is disposed between the first and second outer skins, and a wall that extends between the first and second outer skins to define a support structure in the microcellular structured core. The second polymeric substrate comprises a weld feature that is aligned with the support structure and that is coupled to the second outer skin of the first molded microcellular polymeric substrate.

A motor vehicle seat comprises an underlying framework and reinforcement or stiffening elements which are positioned in adjustable manner relative to the underlying framework to control the firmness of the seat framework in accordance with the user's characteristics and driving conditions.

An air bag system M1 is installed in a vehicle having front side doors 13 which are installed adjacent to the rear of front pillars 1 and which each have an outside rearview mirror 27. An air bag 42 includes a pillar covering portion 47 which is disposed to cover a front surface 1a of the front pillar 1 when it completes its inflation and a fitting cell portion 50 which is installed below the pillar covering portion 47 and which is disposed so that when it completes its inflation, a rear end side portion thereof fits in a space defined between the outside rearview mirror 27 and a lateral side of the vehicle on an upper surface side of the outside rearview mirror. The fitting cell portion 50 is connected to a lower edge side of the pillar covering portion 47 over substantially the whole area in a front-rear direction thereof.

A side airbag device for a rear seat relating to the technique of the present disclosure includes: an airbag module that is provided at an interior of a side garnish that is disposed between a vehicle body side portion and a vehicle transverse direction outer side of a seatback of a rear seat; a tubular flow regulating cloth that is provided at an interior of a side airbag of the airbag module, at a periphery of an inflator; and an airbag door that is provided at the side garnish, and that has a hinge portion and a tear portion at a periphery thereof, and that is pushed by the tubular flow regulating cloth when gas is generated from the inflator, wherein the tubular flow regulating cloth has openings at both ends thereof, and has exhaust holes in a peripheral wall thereof.

A device for controlling personal protection apparatus in a vehicle includes: at least one sensor unit that acquires at least one physical quantity; and evaluation and control unit which (i) produces, from the at least one acquired physical quantity, at least one signal curve that characterizes an impact, (ii) determines, as a function of an energy dissipation behavior of the vehicle, at least one temporal phase in the produced signal curve, and (iii) evaluates the at least one phase for crash classification and for a triggering decision for the personal protection apparatus. The evaluation and control unit retroactively calculates at least one feature of the energy dissipation based on a characteristic time in the signal curve that represents the end of a first temporal phase.

The invention relates to the technical field of emergency escape, in particular to a vehicle wading emergency escape device which comprises a device body, the device body comprises an escape box mainbody, a transparent film is fixedly installed at the bottom end of the escape box main body, and a handle is fixedly installed on one side of the escape box main body. A first fixing plate is fixedlymounted in the escape box main body. By arranging a life buoy body, a blocking mechanism, an inflation mechanism, a transmission mechanism and a window breaking mechanism, a worker knocks a vehicle window through a window breaking hammer; meanwhile, a transmission gear is driven by a meshing gear block to rotate, and finally, a first fixing block and an injection pipeline body can move upwards; hydrogen peroxide and manganese dioxide can be subjected to chemical reaction in the life buoy main body, so that the life buoy main body is expanded; a worker can escape from the life buoy main body, the worker can escape safely when fording into water suddenly, and the safety protection on the worker is improved.

A method and system for judging a vehicle driving environment, comprising: scanning a radar beam emitted by a moving vehicle at a variable elevation angle; detecting reflected waves of the scanning radar beam reflected by a target in front; detecting the elevation angle of the scanning radar beam when detecting the reflected wave ; Calculate the relative speed of the target in front according to the reflected wave; detect the speed of the driving vehicle; calculate the absolute speed of the target in front according to the relative speed and the speed of the driving vehicle; compare the elevation angle with the predetermined angle; compare the absolute speed with the predetermined speed . The reflected wave reflected by the target in front is the reflected wave of an original transmitted radar beam scanned at a variable elevation angle. When the reflected wave is received, the elevation angle of the radar beam is detected, the relative speed of the target ahead is calculated according to the reflected wave, the absolute speed of the target ahead is calculated according to the speed and relative speed of the driving vehicle, and the vehicle driving environment is judged according to the elevation angle and absolute speed.

The invention provides the integrated airbag device of a motor vehicle, which comprises a gas generator installed in a B-pillar of a motor vehicle body at a location corresponding to a chest of an occupant; a chest protecting airbag inflated with air supplied from the gas generator and expanding toward the chest of the occupant during a vehicle collision; and a head protecting airbag inflated with air supplied via an air pipe extending from the gas generator to the upper portion of the B-column and expanding to the head of the occupant during a vehicle collision.

The invention discloses a fixed in-vehicle emergency escape device, and the technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide the fixed in-vehicle emergency escape device which is fast in starting speed, high in window break success rate, not easy to lose, small in occupied space, and safe and stable. The fixed in-vehicle emergency escape device is characterized in that a ball handle is screwed at the upper end of a screw through threads; the screw is screwed at the front end of a rotating arm through the threads; a nut is sheathed on the screw, and is located between the rotating arm and the ball handle; a double rivet is embedded into the lower end of the screw; the tip of the double rivet is in contact with a window glass face; the rear end of the rotating arm is fixed to a support through a dowel; the dowel passes through the support, a torsional spring and the rotating arm; a safety pin passes through the support and the rotating arm; an upper stand bar of the torsional spring is clamped on the inner wall of the rotating arm; a lower stand bar of the torsional spring is clamped in a groove in the support; the lower end of the support is fixedly arranged on a trapezoidal base; a socket head cap screw is connected with the support and the trapezoidal base through the threads; the bottom part of the socket head cap screw is in contact with the rotating arm; the trapezoidal base is fixedly arranged on a car window frame through screw spikes.

The invention relates to an airbag module for automotive vehicles, comprising a gas generator (15) and an inflatable cushion (13) which are housed in a container (11) which is prismatic in shape and formed by folding a flat sheet of suitable material in which its large sides (31, 33), its back side (35) and, as extensions of the sides of said large sides (31), flaps (37, 37′, 37″) corresponding to the sides of the closing surface of the container (11), are defined by means of pre-cut lines, said flaps (37, 37′, 37″) and the large side (33) they are separated from including cooperating means (41, 43, 45) defined by means of pre-cut lines, which allow closing the container (11). The container (11) additionally includes means (51, 53) defined by means of pre-cut lines intended for aiding in positioning and fixing the airbag module in the vehicle.

The invention relates to an electronic antitheft emergency hammer, comprising a hammer handle, wherein one end of the hammer handle is connected with a hammer head. The electronic antitheft emergency hammer is characterized in that the hammer handle and the hammer head are clamped and fixed in an emergency hammer fixing device; the emergency hammer fixing device is provided with a battery placement hole for placing a battery, and an alarm switch which is in press fit with the hammer handle; a luminous mark is arranged on the hammer head. The electronic antitheft emergency hammer provided by the technical scheme of the invention has the beneficial effects that passengers can easily and quickly find the emergency hammer and use the emergency hammer to quickly break glass of vehicle doors and windows on the condition that a vehicle accident occurs at night and no lights are available around the vehicle; the emergency hammer employs an electronic alarming system, so that a driver is warned timely by an alarm after the emergency hammer is stolen or falls off, so guard against theft and timely supplement of the emergency hammer are facilitated.