Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Autoliv Asp, Incorporated

Key Safety Systems, Inc.

Dean M Jaradi

Mohammad Omar Faruque

S M Iskander Farooq

Saeed David Barbat

James Chih Cheng

Robert William McCoy

Zhenyan Gao

Srinivasan Sundararajan

Anil Kalra

Sm Iskander Farooq

Brian Robert Spahn

Nirmal Muralidharan

Mohammed Shenaq

Mohamed Ridha Baccouche

Scott Holmes Dunham

Michael James Whitens

Ching-Hung Chuang

Yali Li

Mark Anthony Cuddihy

Rahul Arora

Fubang Wu

Richard Edward Ruthinowski

Ninad Trifale

Manoharprasad K Rao

Saied Nusier

Sudip Sankar Bhattacharjee

Joseph Robert Brown

Stephen William Rouhana

Yijung Chen

Mike James Whitens

Curtis David Kalina

Rongrong Zhou

Sundeep Venkat Kankanala

Luohui Long

Gary Steven Strumolo

Zhibing Deng

David W Schneider

Deepak Patel

Jialiang Le

Joseph Edward Abramczyk

David R Arnold

Raed Essa El-Jawahri

Edward Joseph DeSmet

Joseph John Zwolinski

Alex G Meduvsky

Rudi Grzic

Kirsten Marie Carr

Frank Herzenstiel

Agnes S Kim

Cortney Stancato

Kevin Siasoco

John L Sullivan

Huipeng Chen

Paul George Bedewi

Michael James Andrus

Sam Hamade

Cameron Hein

Keith Ball

Tiffani Michelle Natalini-Whitmore

Stephen Rouhana

John Sullivan

Tiffani Natalini-Whitmore

Sunny Kankanala

An assembly including a vehicle battery tray. The assembly includes a track fixed relative to the vehicle battery tray. The track is elongated along a cross-vehicle axis. The assembly includes a brace slideably engaged with the track. The brace is slidable along the track relative to the vehicle battery tray along the cross-vehicle axis in a vehicle-outboard direction from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic actuator operatively coupled to the brace to slide the brace along the track from the undeployed position to the deployed position.

Deployable vehicle brace

A vehicle includes a frame and a bumper. The vehicle includes a first crush can attached to the frame. The first crush can is between the frame and the bumper. The first crush can has a first length. The vehicle includes a second crush can attached to the frame. The second crush can is between the frame and the bumper. The second crush can has a second length less than the first length. The vehicle includes a pyrotechnic device supported by the frame, the pyrotechnic device actuatable to detach the first crush can from the frame.

Vehicle with bumper and crush cans

An airbag system including a panel defining a chamber. A vent opening extends through the panel and a cover is positioned over the vent opening and attached to the panel. A conductor at least partially surrounds the vent opening and is operative to release at least a portion of the cover from the panel when the conductor is electrically energized.

Electronically controlled airbag vents

A seat assembly includes a seatback having a top end. The seat assembly includes an arm supported by the seatback, and movable from a stowed position to a deployed position. The seat assembly includes a first webbing guide supported by the seatback at the top end. The seat assembly includes a second webbing guide fixed to and movable with the arm, the second webbing guide at the top end of the seatback with the arm at the stowed position, and the second webbing guide spaced from the seatback in a seat-forward direction with the arm at the deployed position. The seat assembly includes a retractor supported by the seatback at the top end. The seat assembly includes a webbing extending from the retractor through the first webbing guide and the second webbing guide.

Vehicle seat and seatbelt assembly

A vehicle includes a hood having a vehicle-rearward end and a vehicle-forward end. An airbag is disposed below the vehicle-rearward end of the hood and is inflatable to the vehicle-forward end below the hood. A pyrotechnic actuator is disposed below the vehicle-forward end of the hood. A tether extends from the pyrotechnic actuator to the airbag.

Airbag inflatable under vehicle hood

A vehicle includes a vehicle seat having a seatback and a seat bottom defining an occupant-seating area. The vehicle includes an airbag housing having a first arm fixed to the seatback and a second arm rotatable from the seatback toward the seat bottom adjacent the occupant-seating area. An airbag extends from the first arm to the second arm. The airbag is fixed to the first arm and the second arm. The vehicle includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect a removeable child-restraint system (CRS) on the occupant-seating area, and based on the detection of the removeable CRS on the occupant-seating area, inflate the airbag in response to detection of certain vehicle impacts.

Airbag assembly for child-restraint system

A seatbelt retractor includes a frame and a spool having a first end and a second end each rotatably supported by the frame. The spool is elongated on an axis from the first end to the second end. The seatbelt retractor includes a plurality of torsion posts fixed to the frame. The seatbelt retractor includes a locking device operatively coupled between the spool and the plurality of torsion posts.

Load limiting seatbelt retractor

A door for a vehicle includes a door panel. An airbag is mounted to the door panel and is inflatable to an inflated position. A trim panel includes a base segment fixed to the door panel. The trim panel includes a releasable segment positioned to be impacted by the airbag during inflation of the airbag. The releasable segment has a first end and a second end and is elongated between the first end and the second end. A hinge is between the releasable segment and the base segment. The hinge is at the first end of the releasable segment and defines an axis of rotation about which the second end of the releasable segment is rotatable.

Door-mounted airbag assembly

An airbag assembly includes an uninflatable segment having a top end. The airbag assembly includes an airbag segment inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag segment is supported by the uninflatable segment in the inflated position. A conduit segment is fixed to the uninflatable segment and defines a gas passageway in fluid communication with the airbag segment. The conduit segment is elongated along a first axis transverse to the top end of the uninflatable segment, and the airbag segment is elongated along a second axis transverse to the first axis.

Downwardly inflatable vehicle airbag

A restraint system includes a retractor housing, a webbing spool rotatably coupled to the retractor housing and defining an axis of rotation, a wire spool lockable to the webbing spool, a die fixed relative to the retractor housing, and a wire fixed to the wire spool and engaged with the die.

Load-limiting seatbelt retractor

A vehicle includes a vehicle floor and a post supported by the vehicle floor. The post is translatable relative to the vehicle floor. The vehicle includes a support member mounted to the post. The support member is rotatable relative to the post. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the support member.

Slidable post with airbag for wheelchair occupants

A trim panel assembly for a vehicle door includes a trim panel having an inboard side and an outboard side. An inflatable device is supported by the trim panel. The inflatable device is inflatable from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The inflatable device includes a deployable device expandable in a direction away from the inboard side of the trim panel and in a direction away from the outboard side of the trim panel from the undeployed position to the deployed position. The deployable device is a thermoplastic elastomer. The inflatable device includes an airbag supported by the deployable device in the inflated position. The airbag is a woven fabric.

Deployable device for vehicle door

A system includes a seatbelt anchor, a seatbelt webbing extending from the seatbelt anchor; and a motor operatively coupled to the seatbelt anchor to move the seatbelt anchor between a first position and an extended position. The system includes a computer having a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to activate the motor to move the seatbelt anchor from the first position to the extended position in response to determining that tension in the seatbelt webbing is above a predetermined threshold in the absence of detection of a vehicle impact.

Extendable seatbelt anchor

A seat system includes a seat having a seatback and an arm supported by the seatback. The arm is extendable from a stowed position to an intermediate position and pivotable in a seat-forward direction from the intermediate position to a deployed position. A webbing guide is fixed to and movable with the arm. The webbing guide is at a top end of the seatback when the arm is at the stowed position and the webbing guide is spaced from the seatback in the seat-forward direction when the arm is at the deployed position. A retractor is supported by the seatback at the top end and a webbing extends from the retractor through the webbing guide.

Seatbelt guide mechanism

An assembly includes a vehicle seat including a seatback and a restraint frame including a first bar, a second bar spaced from the first bar, and a lap bar elongated from the first bar to the second bar. The seatback has a top end and a bottom end, is elongated along a first axis from the top end to the bottom end, and the first bar and the second bar each have a first end and a second end. The bars are elongated from the first ends to the second ends. The first ends of the bars are hingedly attached at the top end. The second ends are releasably lockable to the seatback at the bottom end. The restraint frame is hinged to the seatback and rotatable about a cross-seat axis from a raised position to a locked position.

Restraint frame for vehicle seat

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Macomb, MI, United States of America

Dean M Jaradi