Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Zhenyan Gao

Dean M Jaradi

Mohammad Omar Faruque

S M Iskander Farooq

William Moore Sherwood

Shaikh Akhlaque-e-rasul

Cheng Luo

Robert William McCoy

Ryan John Craig

Herbert Yang

Huipeng Chen

Luohui Long

James Chih Cheng

Sean Timothy Ryan

Bhimaraddi Venkaraddi Alavandi

Jason Scott Balzer

John Michael McGuckin

Michael Luchtman

Kumar Mahadevan

Bill Moore Sherwood

Shaikh Akhlaque-E-Rasul

Pratt Kamath

Senthilkum Mahadevan

Jeffrey Lichtner

Yuan Zhou

A vehicle includes a vehicle roof and an airbag supported by the vehicle roof. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag defines an inflation chamber in the inflated position. The airbag includes a distal end below the vehicle roof in the inflated position. The vehicle includes an inflatable device supported by the vehicle roof. The inflatable device is a thermoplastic elastomer and inflatable to an inflated position. The inflatable device is in the inflation chamber of the airbag when the inflatable device and the airbag are in the inflated positions. The inflatable device includes a distal end in the inflation chamber of the airbag. The distal end of the inflatable device is below the vehicle roof and above the distal end of the airbag in the inflated position.

Airbag and inflatable device for vehicle

A vehicle includes a body defining a passenger cabin with a front end, the body having a bulkhead at the front end of the passenger cabin. The vehicle includes a telescoping member supported by the bulkhead and movable from a stowed position to a deployed position. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the telescoping member and movable from the stowed position to the deployed position, the airbag inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position.

Vehicle airbag assembly

An assembly includes a seat bottom and a seatback supported by the seat bottom, the seatback having a top end. The assembly includes a first airbag and a second airbag, each inflatable to an inflated position and supported by the seatback at the top end. The assembly includes a lap belt extending from the first airbag to the second airbag. The assembly includes a first retractor and a second retractor, both supported by the seat bottom and spaced from the seatback. The second retractor is spaced from the first retractor along the lateral axis. The assembly includes a first tether extending from the first retractor and fixed to the lap belt, and a second tether extending from the second retractor and fixed to the lap belt.

Vehicle sensor assembly

An assembly for a vehicle includes a middle console. The assembly includes a seatback including a vehicle-rearward side. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the middle console. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag in the inflated position includes a middle portion and an extension. The extension extends from the middle portion along the vehicle-rearward side of the seatback.

Middle console airbag

A seat assembly for a vehicle includes a seatback having a seat frame. The seat assembly includes a panel having an end slidably supported by the seat frame. The panel is bowable outwardly from the seat frame to a deployed position. The seat assembly includes an actuator supported by the seat frame and connected to the end of the panel.

Seat assembly with deployable panel

A seatbelt height adjuster includes a track elongated along an axis and including a plurality of holes spaced from each other along the axis, a slider slideably coupled to the track, a D-ring supported by the slider, a pin supported by the slider and releasably engageable with one respective hole, and a pyrotechnic actuator supported by the slider and engaged with the pin.

Seatbelt height adjuster

A vehicle includes an assembly having a middle console and a first airbag and second airbag each supported by and inflatable upwardly from the middle console to an inflated position. The first airbag and the second airbag each have a top distal to the middle console in the inflated position. A tether is external to the first airbag and the second airbag. The tether is connected to the top of the first airbag and the top of the second airbag.

Console airbag

A vehicle includes a bulkhead. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the bulkhead and inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag in the inflated position includes a main chamber and a pair of side chambers that extend transversely from the main chamber. The vehicle includes a seat having a seatback and a seat bottom that extends from the seatback in a direction away from the bulkhead. The seatback is between the side chambers in the inflated position.

Vehicle airbag

A restraint system includes a reaction surface and an airbag supported by the reaction surface. The airbag is inflatable along an axis away from the reaction surface to an inflated position. The airbag includes an inner portion and an outer portion concentric with the inner portion about the axis. The inner portion and the outer portion define a gap therebetween in the inflated position. The airbag includes a panel extending radially across the gap from the inner portion to the outer portion. The panel is uninflatable.

Airbag assembly

A seatbelt assembly includes a D-ring, a clip spaced from the D-ring, a webbing slideably engaged with the D-ring and the clip, and an airbag slideably receiving the webbing between the D-ring and the clip. The airbag includes a first portion, a second portion, and an intermediate portion therebetween. The first portion and the second portion are inflatable to an inflated position and the intermediate portion is uninflatable.

Seatbelt assembly including airbag

A vehicle includes a front console and an airbag supported by the front console. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag in the inflated position has an inboard side and an outboard side spaced from each other in a cross-vehicle direction. The airbag in the inflated position has a cavity open toward the front console and extending through the inboard side and the outboard side.

Airbag having cavity open toward front console

A vehicle seating system includes a vehicle floor, a seat supported by the vehicle floor, a retractor mounted to the vehicle floor beneath the seat, a webbing guide supported by the seat, and a webbing extending from the retractor through the webbing guide.

Vehicle seat belt system

An assembly includes a base and a seatbelt anchor. The seatbelt anchor has a first end defining a circular hole pivotally supported by the base and a second end fixed in position relative to the first end. The assembly includes a buckle fixed in position relative to the second end. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic actuator secured to the base. The assembly includes a connector extending from the pyrotechnic actuator to the seatbelt anchor.

Seatbelt assembly

An airbag includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion is for extending from a vehicle roof and engagement with a head rest of a seat in an inflated position. The lower portion forms a cushion board that extends downwardly from the upper portion for engagement with and disposition between a seatback and a restraining bar located rearward of the seatback in the inflated position.

Roof mounted seat support airbag

A restraint system includes a seatback frame, a webbing guide attached to the seatback frame, webbing extending from below the seatback frame through the webbing guide, and a tether attached to the webbing and retractable to the seatback frame above the webbing guide. The restraint system may include a roller coupled to the seatback frame above the webbing guide, and the tether is at least partially wound around the roller.

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