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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2022
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc, Plano, TX (US);
Masato Tanaka, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Yuyang Song, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Shinnosuke Shimokawa, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH INC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A reusable vehicle occupant protection system that includes a reusable housing member and one or more reusable impact attenuator members, disposed in a cavity of the reusable housing member. The reusable housing member has at least one moveable wall having one or more openings. The one or more reusable impact attenuator members are moveable from a storage operating state to a deployed operating state in response to receipt of a compressive force by the at least one moveable wall. In the deployed state, at least a portion of the one or more reusable impact attenuator members are extruded through the one or more openings to form an array of impact bubbles which cushions a vehicle occupant against an impact force to the vehicle.
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