Zoox, Inc.

Mikael Jarsaeter

Markus Jost

Andrew Frank Raczkowski

Goutham Shanmuga Sundaram

Andrew John Piper

Mark Alan Bates

David Maurice Libeaut

Marcos Puerta Terron

Daria Di Costanzo

Maria Fernanda Villanueva Ochoa

Solomon Andrew Hafer

A sealing system for a vehicle is configured to separate a vehicle cabin between a dry area and a wet area and to channel a spilled fluid or waste material inside the wet area to a collection area for cleaning. The sealing system may include one or more sealing members that can be extrusion molded to fill one or more gaps between two or more vehicle components.

Interior sealing for carriage style vehicle

A component tray assembly for a vehicle. For example, the component tray assembly may be installed between a body of the vehicle and a seat bulkhead of the vehicle. The component tray assembly may include at least a component shelf, a cover disposed over the component shelf, and one or more components. In some examples, the component shelf includes three openings and the one or more components include three speakers respectively disposed within the openings. The component shelf may further include notches located proximate to the side of the component shelf where the component shelf attaches to the seat bulkhead. The positions and shapes of the openings and the notches may create a weakened region of the component shelf that is configured to deform the component tray assembly during a collision. By deforming, the component tray assembly is configured to minimize the amount of force that is imparted to the seat.

Component tray assembly for vehicles

A headrest may be fixed relative to a seat or a bank of seats in a vehicle and can provide multiple stages of deformation in response to a collision event. The headrest can include a resilient member that deforms in response to a first force caused by the collision event. The headrest can also include a frame that deforms in a first manner in response to a second force greater than the first force and in a second manner in response to a third force greater than the second force. Such a headrest can provide improved impact mitigation for occupants, regardless of height and/or weight such that occupants ranging from the 5to 95percentile in height and/or weight are afforded similar impact mitigation despite a fixed headrest structure. In some examples, multiple such headrests may be conjoined.

Multiple stage headrest

A side-impact crash structure for a vehicle seat may be positioned in the side wall of a passenger seat to reduce impact forces imparted to an occupant during a side collision. The side-impact crash structure for the vehicle seat may include energy absorbers positioned between the seating surface and the outer sidewall of the vehicle. The energy absorbers may be positioned to engage the shoulder and/or lower abdomen area of the passenger. The energy absorbers may be configured to absorb impact forces over a limited ride-down distance (the distance over which the deceleration occurs) to prevent injury to occupants.

Side-impact crash structure for a vehicle seat

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Mikael Jarsaeter