Automotive protective device tracking
OwnerMark Hatfield, Sean Bowmaninventors
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Abstract
An automotive protective device that can be configured to be mounted to a vehicle to provide protection to an occupant of a vehicle during a collision event. The automotive protective device may include a textile component formed of a textile and including an RFID chip, wherein the textile component is associated with an identifier of the RFID chip, and a non-textile component coupled to the textile component and associated with the identifier of the RFID chip, wherein the non-textile is associated with the identifier of the RFID chip at an assembly time when the non-textile component is coupled to the textile component.
Claims20
An automotive protective device that is configured to be mounted to a vehicle to provide protection to an occupant of a vehicle during a collision event, the automotive protective device comprising:
- a textile component formed of a textile and including an RFID chip, wherein the textile component is associated, in a database, with an identifier of the RFID chip;
- and
- a non-textile component coupled to the textile component and associated, in the database, with the identifier of the RFID chip, wherein the non-textile is associated with the identifier of the RFID chip at an assembly time when the non-textile component is coupled to the textile component.
A system comprising:
- a database;
- and
- an assembly station for assembling an automotive protective device that is configured to be mounted to a vehicle to provide protection to an occupant of a vehicle during a collision event, the assembly station comprising a scanner configured to:
- scan an RFID chip of a textile component of the automotive protective device to determine an identifier of the RFID chip, wherein the textile component is associated with the identifier of the RFID chip in the database;
- receive information associated with a non-textile component of the automotive protective device;
- add the non-textile component to the automotive protective device;
- and
- associate, in the database, the non-textile component of the automotive protective device with the identifier of the RFID chip.
A method for manufacturing an automotive protective device configured to be mounted to a vehicle to provide protection to an occupant of a vehicle during a collision event, the method comprising:
- associating, in a database, an identifier of an RFID chip of a textile component of the automotive protective device with the textile component;
- incorporating a non-textile component into the automotive protective device;
- and
- associating, in the database, the non-textile component with the identifier of the RFID chip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.