Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-17
2005-05-17
Dayoan, D. Glenn (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
C293S114000, C293S128000, C296S187030
Reexamination Certificate
active
06893079
ABSTRACT:
A side impact protection system for a motor vehicle body having a stowed position and a deployed position, the system includes a first L-shaped rigid structure comprising a first portion and a second portion; a second L-shaped rigid structure comprising a first portion and a second portion; a synthetic cable fixedly attached to the second portions of the first and second L-shaped rigid structures, wherein the synthetic cable is made from a plurality of helically braided bundles of fibers selected from a group consisting of aramid fibers and liquid crystal polymer fibers characterized by strain-at-failure exceeding about 3 percent; and a deployment device in operative communication with the first portions of the first and second L-shaped rigid structures to selectively extend the first portion outwardly from the deployment device, and wherein in a stowed position the second portions are at about the same plane and in a deployed position the second portions are parallel and the synthetic cables form a web-like structure. Processes for suppressing intrusion into a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle body by an object laterally impacting the vehicle body are also described.
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Browne Alan L.
Johnson Nancy L.
Jones Gary L.
Chenevert Paul
Dayoan D. Glenn
General Motors Corporation
Marra Kathryn A.
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