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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2008
Yasuyuki Andou, Hiroshima, JP;
Kouichi Nakano, Hiroshima, JP;
Shiro Nakatani, Hiroshima, JP;
Yukio Nakamura, Hiroshima, JP;
Yasuyuki Andou, Hiroshima, JP;
Kouichi Nakano, Hiroshima, JP;
Shiro Nakatani, Hiroshima, JP;
Yukio Nakamura, Hiroshima, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a rear-seat occupant protection apparatus, which is designed to protect, during a frontal collision of a vehicle, a rear-seat occupant (B) seated in a rear seat () located behind a front seat () equipped with a seat belt () having a load limiter function. The rear-seat occupant protection apparatus comprises a collision detection device () adapted to detect the frontal collision of the vehicle, and a seat-back displacing mechanism adapted, when the frontal collision of the vehicle is detected by the collision detection device, to permit a seat back () of the front seat () to be displaced frontwardly at a given timing consecutive with a frontward displacement of a front-seat occupant (A) seated in the front seat (). The rear-seat occupant protection apparatus of the present invention can adequately protect a head of the rear-seat occupant during the frontal collision of the vehicle.