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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2023
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Autoliv Development Ab, Vårgårda, SE;
Bernd Jakobs, Nuremberg, DE;
Jörg Haesser, Gaimersheim, DE;
Walter Krönes, Gaimersheim, DE;
Christoph Grundheber, Gaimersheim, DE;
Johann Unger, Rohrbach, DE;
Oliver Adolph, Hebertshausen, DE;
Marc Schock, Karlsfeld, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB, Vårgårda, SE;
Abstract
A motor vehicle and a method secure a passenger in the motor vehicle in a collision. The motor vehicle has a seat including a seat body, which forms a seat surface, and a backrest connected to the seat body. An inertial force acting on the passenger in a collision is transmitted by a seatbelt arrangement to the backrest in such a manner that the latter pivots forwards relative to the seat body counter to the restoring effect of an elastic and/or plastic deformation of at least part of the backrest. A force which counteracts the pivoting-forwards action is generated by a force generator, and transmitted to the backrest, and/or the maximum pivoting path of the backrest is limited by a limiting device in that, when a predetermined reference acceleration is present, a deviation between a present pivoting path of the backrest and a predetermined reference pivoting path is minimized.