Side impact protection apparatus

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1991-09-23

1992-08-25

Song, Robert R.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Door or window with specified vehicle feature

280751, 296189, 293107, B60J 504, B60R 2102

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active

051412799

ABSTRACT:
A side impact protection apparatus for use on the inner panel of a vehicle door. The apparatus is a cushion including a hollow flexible skin having an inner wall secured to the inner panel, flexible ties between the skin and the inner wall or low density open-celled foam to prevent the skin from bulging, a rupturable diaphragm-covered orifice or a coupling having an extrudable elastomeric plug mounted therein connected to the inner wall, and a medium of air under pressure or hydraulic fluid or water or a polygel contained in the cushion and adaptable to discharge by rupturing the diaphragm or extruding the elastomeric plug when subjected to impact by the vehicle occupant in the event of a high force side impact against the vehicle.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3588158 (1971-06-01), Ford
patent: 3829141 (1974-08-01), Igwe
patent: 3989275 (1976-11-01), Finch et al.
patent: 5040335 (1991-08-01), Grimes
DynaPad, Apr. 24, 1991.

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