Vehicle airbag system and control method
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeok Min LEE, Hae Kwon PARK, Ga Ram JEONG, Dong Oh LEE, Sang Won HWANGBO
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Abstract
A vehicle airbag system is proposed, The vehicle airbag system includes: a front airbag mounted to a portion of a vehicle at front of a passenger and configured to be unfolded toward front of the passenger; an upper airbag mounted to a portion of the vehicle above the passenger and configured to be unfolded toward front of the passenger; a seat detector configured to detect a seating posture of the passenger; and a controller configured to control unfolding of the front airbag or the upper airbag on the basis of the passenger's seating posture detected by the seat detector.
Claims17
A vehicle airbag system comprising:
- a front airbag positioned in front of a passenger of a vehicle and configured to deploy toward a front of the passenger;
- an upper airbag positioned above the passenger and configured to deploy toward the front of the passenger;
- a seat detector configured to detect a seating posture of the passenger;
- and
- a controller configured to control unfolding of the front airbag or the upper airbag based on the detected seating posture of the passenger.
A method of operating a vehicle airbag, comprising:
- detecting a location of a vehicle seat or a tilting angle of a seatback;
- determining a seating posture of a passenger based on the detected location of the vehicle seat or tilting angle of the seatback;
- and
- controlling, based on the determined seating posture of the passenger, at least one of:
- a front airbag positioned in front of the passenger and configured to deploy toward a front of the passenger:, and
- an upper airbag positioned above the passenger and configured to deploy toward the front of the passenger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.