Protection means for road vehicles
OwnerMordechai Vodavozinventor
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Abstract
A reusable system for cushioning impacts to a vehicle comprising: a bumper mounted via shock absorbers to the chassis of the vehicle; a remote sensor for detecting location and relative velocity of objects in proximity of the vehicle; a processor; a primary airbag mounted within the bumper, expandable outwards from some bumper upon inflation; an inflator for the primary airbag; a valve for releasing gas from the primary airbag and a retractor for compressing primary airbag, wherein a signal from processor indicating imminent impact triggers inflation of primary airbag beyond bumper protecting bumper and retractor collapses airbag for reuse.
Claims10
A reusable system for cushioning impacts to a vehicle comprising:
- a bumper mounted via shock absorbers to the chassis of the vehicle;
- a remote sensor means to detect location and relative velocity of objects in proximity of the vehicle;
- a processor;
- a primary airbag mounted within the bumper, expandable outwards from the bumper upon inflation;
- an inflation means coupled with the primary airbag;
- a valve for releasing gas from the primary airbag and a retracting means to compress primary airbag, wherein a signal from processor indicating imminent impact triggers inflation of primary airbag beyond the bumper thereby protecting the bumper and retracting means collapses airbag for reuse.
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