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US 12,252,087 B1Granted
Method and system to control airbag deployment for a pregnant occupant
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorsStephanie R Beck, Anthony N Gorney, Omer Kiyani
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Abstract
A method and system for controlling airbag deployment in a vehicle. The method may include the steps of receiving an input that a driver of the vehicle is pregnant, and changing an airbag deployment setting to account for a space reduction between the driver and an interior panel portion of the vehicle. In one implementation, the interior panel portion of the vehicle is a steering wheel.
Claims19
A method of controlling airbag deployment in a vehicle, comprising:
- receiving an input that a driver of the vehicle is pregnant;
- and
- changing an airbag deployment setting to account for a space reduction between the driver and an interior panel portion of the vehicle, wherein the airbag deployment setting is a deployment delay factor.
A method of controlling airbag deployment in a vehicle, comprising:
- receiving an input that a driver of the vehicle is pregnant;
- and
- changing an airbag deployment setting to account for a space reduction between the driver and an interior panel portion of the vehicle, wherein the airbag deployment setting is an inflation adjustment parameter to adjust an inflator of the airbag, the inflation adjustment parameter is an airbag intensity factor, and wherein the airbag intensity factor is a deployment time difference between the inflator and a second inflator.
A system for controlling airbag deployment in a vehicle, comprising:
- an infotainment cluster configured to receive an input that a driver of the vehicle is pregnant;
- an airbag control module having a controller configured to receive the input that the driver of the vehicle is pregnant from the infotainment cluster and change an airbag deployment setting for an airbag to account for a space reduction between the driver and an interior panel portion of the vehicle wherein the airbag deployment setting is a deployment delay factor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.