Vehicle safety arrangement for positioning a vehicle occupant
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsRuprecht Sinnhuber, Bernd Richter
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Abstract
To protect a vehicle occupant from injury by a safety airbag activated in the event of a collision when the occupant's actual position is different from a normal occupant restraint position, an occupant-moving arrangement is provided to move the occupant into the normal restraint position prior to full activation of an airbag. The occupant-moving arrangement is effected by inflation of the airbag with an initially limited pressure or by a movable cushion or a pivoted flap driven by a gas generator.
Claims6
A vehicle safety arrangement for protecting an occupant comprising airbag means arranged to be activated in the event of a collision and connected to a collision sensor arranged to cause full activation of the airbag means, a precollision sensor for detecting an impending collision, and occupant-moving means separate from the airbag means and activatable in response to the precollision sensor prior to full activation of the airbag means for moving the occupant of a vehicle seat into a normal restraint position.
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