Vehicle occupant restraining system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasato Kunisada, Hiroyuki Nagura, Takuma Kawai, Takayuki Iwakawa
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Abstract
A vehicle occupant restraining system includes plural occupant restraining devices that are disposed in a side support portion of a seat back of a vehicle seat and is configured to, when activated, restrain an occupant; and a control device that is configured to staggers the activation timings of the plural occupant restraining devices so that a load that acts on the occupant simultaneously from the plural occupant restraining devices is made to be equal to or less than a maximum value of a load that acts on the occupant individually from the plural occupant restraining devices.
Claims8
A vehicle occupant restraining system comprising:
- a plurality of occupant restraining devices that are disposed in a side support portion of a seat back of a vehicle seat and are configured to, when activated, restrain an occupant;
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- a control device that is configured to stagger activation timings of the plurality of occupant restraining devices so that a load that acts on the occupant simultaneously from the plurality of occupant restraining devices is made to be equal to or less than a maximum value of a load that acts on the occupant individually from any one of the plurality of occupant restraining devices,.
- wherein the plurality of occupant restraining devices includes
- a side airbag device that is disposed in the side support portion and that is configured to inflate and deploy a side airbag between a cabin side portion and the occupant, and
- an inside airbag device that is disposed in the side support portion and that is configured to inflate and deploy an inside airbag inside the side support portion, and
- wherein the control device is configured to, in a case in which a side impact to the vehicle has been detected, inflate and deploy the inside airbag before the side airbag so that a load that acts on the occupant simultaneously from both the side airbag and the inside airbag is made to be equal to or less than a maximum value of a load that acts on the occupant individually from the side airbag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.