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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2020
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Markus Jost, San Mateo, CA (US);
Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Stanford, CA (US);
Andrew John Piper, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Josh Alexander Jimenez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
An occupant protection system for a vehicle may include an expandable curtain and/or an expandable bladder configured to be expanded from a stowed state to a deployed state. In the deployed state, the expandable curtain may include first and second sides configured to extend along respective portions of first and second interior sides of the vehicle. The expandable curtain may also include a transverse portion extending between the first and second sides, and the first and second sides, and the transverse portion of the expandable curtain may form a contiguous barrier. The expandable bladder when deployed may be supported by the expandable curtain during contact by an occupant. The occupant protection system may also include a deployment control system configured to cause the expandable curtain and/or the expandable bladder to expand to the deployed state. The occupant protection system may be used in vehicles having a carriage-style seating arrangement.