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US 2003/0227199 A1Published application
Vehicle occupant protection apparatus
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRyozo Yoshizawa, Isamu Nakanishi
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Abstract
A vehicle occupant protection apparatus includes a headrest control unit for drive-controlling a headrest actuating mechanism. This control unit itself predicts that a vehicle behind is about to impact its own vehicle, and controls the headrest actuating mechanism to move a seat headrest forward and thereby reduce the size of the gap between the headrest and the neck of the occupant of the seat.
Claims4
A vehicle occupant protection apparatus, comprising:
- a headrest mounted movably front/rearward to the top of a seat of a vehicle;
- a headrest actuating mechanism for advancing the headrest;
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- a headrest control unit for drive-controlling the headrest actuating mechanism,
- wherein the headrest control unit includes impact predicting means for predicting the impact into the vehicle from behind of an impacting body and drive-controls the headrest actuating mechanism on the basis of a prediction signal from this impact predicting means.
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