Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Patent
1975-05-05
1976-09-21
Wood, Jr., M. H.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
180103A, 280743, 297390, 297216, B60R 2108
Patent
active
039815188
ABSTRACT:
A restraint system for preventing injury to passengers occupying seats in a transportation vehicle. The restraint system comprises a plurality of individually inflated bags, one pair straddling each of a plurality of seats linearly aligned between side walls of the vehicle. A collision detector activates the restraint system to inflate the bags in a linear array adjacent the abdomens of the seats' occupants. Because of their storage locations directly adjacent each seat, the individual pairs of bags can be deployed rapidly at the outset of a collision into positions wherein they obstruct forward movement of an occupant and thereby prevent injury-producing contact thereof with potentially dangerous portions of the vehicle. Belt stays extending between the bags and the vehicle are provided to exert restraining forces that prevent separation of the bags by an occupant who has been propelled foward after a frontal collision of the vehicle. Additional positional stability for the deployed bags is provided by inflating the bags into a linear array that exerts a substantial longitudinal thrust against the side walls of the vehicle.
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Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Silverstrim John P.
Toupal John E.
Wood, Jr. M. H.
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