Audi Ag

Autoliv Development Ab

Carsten Klinkert

Sebastian Schwartze

Wolfgang Dorfner

Eduard Main

Joachim Huber

Klaus Nonnenbroich

Robert Haumer

Carlo Heller

Bettina Wendel

Kamilla Kreft-Lazarska

Steffen Mangold

Siegfried Karmann

Stefan Brands

Helmut Schwaiger

Boris Berleb

Peter Malisi

Henrik Färnstrand

Kamila Kreft-Lazarska

Torben Rochow

An airbag unit having an airbag and at least one inflator. The airbag unit is especially suitable for preventing an element located outside the passenger compartment of a vehicle from intruding into the passenger compartment during an accident. The airbag is made of a hose formed of a one-pieced woven element extending from a first end to a second end. The hose is bent or folded, such that two parallel sections () of the airbag are formed with each section () enclosing a chamber. The airbag is very robust and can be designed such that in its deployed state its thickness is large in relation to its volume.

Airbag unit and motor vehicle

A device for absorbing kinetic energy includes a first stationary component and a second component that can be moved in relation to the first component, wherein at least one of the components converts energy by plastic deformation when a certain force level is exceeded, and comprising a coupling apparatus, which operatively connects the first component and the second component in such a way that the two components can be moved in relation to each other only with low energy conversion when the coupling apparatus is not activated and forces can be transmitted from one component to the other component when the coupling apparatus is activated. The movable component has a deformation element, which initially deforms in the event of a crash, so that a movement of the movable component occurs only thereafter, wherein the coupling apparatus is continuously in engagement with the two components and thus continuously produces a first low coupling force level and, when the coupling apparatus is activated, the coupling forces are increased from the first low coupling force level to a high coupling force level and plastic deformation of at least one component occurs.

Device for absorbing kinetic energy, in particular for installing in a motor vehicle

A vehicle includes a heat exchanger which is disposed in a cooling system, and a fan unit which forms part of a radiator grille and is constructed to generate an air flow through the heat exchanger. The fan unit has at least one fan which is constructed to generate a primary air flow, and a ring element which is constructed to generate from the primary air flow an amplified secondary air flow to the heat exchanger.

Vehicle with fan unit producing an amplified air flow to a heat exchanger

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Hitzhofen, Germany

Carsten Klinkert