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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2021
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Josh Alexander Jimenez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Markus Jost, San Mateo, CA (US);
Andrew John Piper, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew Frank Raczkowski, San Jose, 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. The system may also include a transverse ceiling trim panel and one or more side ceiling trim panels configured to be coupled to a ceiling of the vehicle, with the transverse ceiling trim panel extending substantially transversely with respect to the one or more side ceiling trim panels. Portions of the ceiling trim panels may be configured to deflect and allow expansion of the expandable curtain and/or the expandable bladder to the deployed state. The system may also include a deployment controller and one or more inflators configured to cause deployment of the expandable curtain at a first time and deployment of the expandable bladder at a second time after the first time.