Breed Automotive Technology, Inc.

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Bgm Engineering, Inc.

Congress Financial Corporation

Edward Burley

Brian K Blackburn

Joseph F Mazur

Scott B Gentry

Mohannad F Murad

James C Lotito

Srinivasan Sundararajan

Louis R Brown

H John Miller, Iii

Timothy W Hill

Kurt W Schulz

Michel Paul Rossey

Henry D Frech

A head restraint system for an automotive vehicle seat includes a headrest carried upon eccentric mounting posts which may be extended telescopically from a seatback and rotated about their base axes so as to reposition the headrest not only vertically, but also horizontally. A sensor mounted in the headrest feeds back the location of an occupant's head to a system controller.

Head restraint for automotive vehicle

A sensor package which is reliable, low cost, simple, robust, and usable to input additional seat occupant information to an airbag controller to control airbag deployment, and which is insensitive to cross axis loading of a seat belt. A second housing member is internally interfaced with the first housing member, wherein a suspension system frictionlessly suspends the first housing member springably with respect to the second housing member. A pressure sensor is mounted to one of the first and second housings, and a biasing spring is mounted to the other of the first and second housings in axial abutment with the pressure sensor.

Seat belt tension sensor package

The present invention provides a method and device for simulating impact conditions which has a test sled , simulated occupant ( ), and a pre-impact force-generating device. The pre-impact force-generating device can apply force directly to the simulated occupant being ( ), thereby overcoming many of the cost problems associated with applying a low and long duration force directly to a test sled ( ). The pre-impact force-generating device can be designed such that instead of providing a low and long duration force to a simulated occupant ( ), it provides a short and high impact force to the simulated occupant ( ). An impact force-generating device provides impact force directly to the sled ( ) which simulates impact conditions.

Sled test apparatus and method for simulating pre-impact crash event

An occupant position measuring system (,) comprising: a transmitter for generating a pulse modulated transmitter signal; a receiver for receiving a reflection of the transmitter signal, the receiver being characterized as having a relatively low Q factor; a controller, responsive to the receipt of the reflected signal and for generating an indication of the distance between an occupant the transmitter.

Ultrasonic occupant position sensing system

An apparatus and method of determining and tracking the position of a main target (an occupant) and secondary targets, comprising the steps of: transmitting a signal T,, of determinable period toward the location of the occupant, generating and storing a first index of data indicative of the time any received signal exceeds a determinable threshold; separating the data within the first index into definable data groups indicative of individual received signals representing potential targets; determining, in relation to each transmitted signal T,, a common group time of receipt T,for each data group; correlating the group time of receipt to the position of the main target and secondary targets occupant.

Occupant position system and method using ultrasonic technology

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Edward Burley