B60R 21/08
Automatically movable from an inoperative to an operative position
Official title: {automatically} movable from an inoperative to an operative position, e.g. in a collision (electrical circuits for triggering safety arrangements B60R21/01)
B60R21/08 (Automatically movable from an inoperative to an operative position) appears on 138 US grants and 93 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60R- Granted patents
- 138
- Published applications
- 93
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 293
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
Filings by year
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| 2023 | 6 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Occupant protection system with deployable curtains and airbags19 May 2026US 12,630,108 B1Zoox, Inc.
- Occupant protection device25 Feb 2025US 12,233,804 B2Daicel Corporation
- Occupant protecting system12 Nov 2024US 12,139,089 B2Daicel Corporation
- Restraint system8 Oct 2024US 12,109,970 B1Apple Inc.
- Moveable net engaged with extendable vehicle post3 Sep 2024US 12,077,119 B1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Impact mitigation device and vehicle12 Mar 2026US 2026/0070505 A1Daicel Corporation
- Occupant protection device21 Dec 2023US 2023/0406251 A1Daicel Corporation
- Occupant Restraining Apparatus, and Control System and Method Thereof6 Jul 2023US 2023/0211748 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- Sleeping bedsheet crash protection system for lie-flat sleeping passenger27 Apr 2023US 2023/0126971 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Vehicle crossbar movable along pillars16 Mar 2023US 2023/0080246 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Side impact and roll over inflatable head protector188US 5,788,270 AAutoliv Development AB · 1998
- Side impact head restraint with inflatable deployment130US 5,588,672 ATakata Corporation · 1996
- Side impact head strike protection system127US 5,322,322 ASimula, Inc. · 1994
- Occupant protecting system for vehicle106US 5,462,308 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1995
- Method and apparatus for activating a motor vehicle safety system100US 4,985,835 AAudi AG · 1991