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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2024
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Yuyang Song, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Shinnosuke Shimokawa, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Phouvadol P. Khouphongsy, Saline, MI (US);
Umesh N. Gandhi, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Koray Benli, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A passenger restraint system includes a sealed blanket. The sealed blanket is draped over a passenger. The passenger restraint system also includes a set of variable-stiffness material layers disposed within the sealed blanket. The variable-stiffness material layers have a flexible state and a rigid state. An anchor system is attached to the sealed blanket to fasten the sealed blanket to an interior cabin of a vehicle and a vacuum pump pulls a vacuum within the sealed blanket and transitions the variable-stiffness material layers from the flexible state to the rigid state.
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