Motor vehicle seat arrangement and method for protecting a vehicle occupant

US8474862B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TAKATA CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

• Oliver Pursche · Ulm, DE
• Hans-Peter Sendelbach · Senden, DE
• Martin Breuninger · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Hiroshi Nozu · Hikone, JP
• Werner Geiselhart · Ulm, DE
• Edwin Miller · Ulm, DE
• Thomas Sievers · Ulm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 14, 2009
• Grant date: Jul 2, 2013
• Expiry date: Sep 14, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/26094
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle seat arrangement for a motor vehicle. The seat arrangement comprising a vehicle seat, at least one inflatable element, means for inflating the inflatable element which inflate the inflatable element depending on a control signal. The vehicle seat arrangement is arranged in the vehicle and the inflatable element is designed and arranged in or on a side wall of a backrest of the vehicle seat in a way that it exerts a momentum on the upper part of the body of the vehicle occupant while it is inflated in answer to the control signal, so that the whole vehicle occupant is moved away from a collision section of the vehicle that collides or is going to collide with the object or that the thorax region of the upper part of the body of the vehicle occupant performs a tilting movement away from the collision section of the vehicle.