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Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2021
Applicant:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nirmal Muralidharan, San Mateo, CA (US);

Markus Jost, San Mateo, CA (US);

David Maurice Libeaut, Bidford-on-Avon, GB;

Samantha Lynne Schoell, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/207 (2006.01); B60R 21/015 (2006.01); B60R 21/0134 (2006.01); B60R 21/233 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/207 (2013.01); B60R 21/0134 (2013.01); B60R 21/01512 (2014.10); B60R 21/233 (2013.01);
Abstract

A seat for a vehicle may include a seatback including one or more inflatable bladders that may be configured to deploy in response to a triggering signal indicative of a change of velocity, collision, or predicted collision event. As at least a portion of the back of an occupant of the seat pushes against a front surface of the seatback due to the event, the one or more inflatable bladders compress at least partially the comfortable foam or comfort material in the seatback and expedite engagement of the energy absorbing material.


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