Patents Assigned to Autoliv Developement AB
  • DECORATIVE PART FOR A STEERING WHEEL OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180222516
    Abstract: A decorative piece of a vehicle steering wheel decoration arranged to be mounted on a steering wheel of the vehicle includes a decorative core made from a decorative material, such as wood. A protective portion of the decorative core made from a transparent or translucent material covering at least part of a surface of the decorative core is arranged to be visible by a user. A fastening portion is arranged to fasten the decorative part on the steering wheel. The fastening portion is made from the same transparent or translucent material as the protective portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Mickael PEYROT, Frederic MOULINAS
  • AIRBAG ASSEMBLY AND VEHICLE SEAT PROVIDED WITH AIRBAG ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20180178748
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an airbag assembly and a vehicle seat comprising the airbag assembly. The airbag assembly is adapted to be mounted at a side of a vehicle front seat away from its neighboring vehicle door, and includes a folded airbag adapted to be inflated with gas and to be connected to a backrest frame of the vehicle front seat; and a tether for controlling deployment of the airbag. A first end of the tether is connected to the airbag and a second end of the tether is adapted to be connected to the backrest frame. The airbag is configured to be restrained by the tether and the filling so as to be disposed along a side contour of the backrest frame in a bent state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Jin ZHANG, Kongfu XIE, Magdalena WINGREN, Mats BERNTSSON, Par SANDINGE
  • IGNITER CASE
    Publication number: 20180172411
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a metallic case of a pyrotechnical igniter having a wall with at least one weak zone and an inner surface in the case with at least one part facing this at least one weak zone includes positioning the case on a matrix having a plane zone. The method further includes striking the wall with at least one punch so as to, in a single movement of striking, deform at least the part of the inner surface facing this at least one weak zone and having at least one initially curved-in zone in order to bring it on the plane zone and to form in this manner a plane inner surface, and to form the at least one weak zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: Autoliv Development AB, Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Patrice BOUTIN, Jose REINOSO
  • FRONT AIRBAG FOR VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20180170302
    Abstract: A front airbag for vehicles including an airbag cushion may include a rear panel located at the side of a steering wheel and a front panel located at the side of a passenger and having a shape corresponding to the shape of the rear panel, the rear panel and the front panel provided with protruding supports formed at both sides of the lower end portions thereof, a first tether connecting the central part of the front panel, corresponding to a loading position of the passenger's head, to an airbag housing, and second tethers connecting the lower end portion of the front panel, corresponding to a loading position of the passenger's chest, to the airbag housing and having a shorter length than that of the first tether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corp., Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Beom Soo KIM, Seung Ho AN, Taeg Young AHN, Jun Yong MIN, Sung Woo LEE, Dong Young KIM
  • Vehicle steering wheel
    Patent number: 9988003
    Abstract: A vehicle steering wheel comprising a metallic hub, a rim, and at least one branch including a mechanical connection piece attaching the rim to the hub. The vehicle steering wheel additionally includes at least one second branch of polymer injected between the hub and the rim without a mechanical connection piece attaching the rim to the hub, the at least one second branch including at least one energy conductor. The steering wheel further comprising positioning means for positioning the at least one energy conductor before the injection of the polymer of the branch in such a manner as to guarantee a minimal distance between the at least one energy conductor and a surface of the polymer once it is injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Fabrice Moinard, Yann Simonet, Olivier Baribault
  • AN AIRBAG UNIT FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY DEVICE AND A RELATED METHOD OF PACKAGING AN AIRBAG
    Publication number: 20180148012
    Abstract: An airbag unit for a motor vehicle safety device includes an inflatable airbag formed of flexible material and provided in a rolled and/or folded package. The inflatable airbag is held under compression by a cover extending around at least part of the package. The cover is formed of a moulded pulp material and is configured to impart a predetermined stable shape to the unit. A method of packaging an airbag in such a manner is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Karin YDRÉN, Dan PERSSON, Nathalie DUCROCQ
  • WHEEL OF VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180056914
    Abstract: A vehicle steering wheel includes a base part such as a frame, at least one added part such as a safety module, at least one centring part, and a regulating device for regulating a position of the added part on the base part. The regulating device includes at least one stud, and at least one impression. The at least one impression is arranged to receive the at least one stud in accordance with a first mounting position or at least one second mounting position, in such a manner as to impose a first position of the added part relative to the base part or to impose a second position of the added part relative to the base part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Alexis MORAS, Nicolas PROUST
  • CURTAIN AIRBAG FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180050652
    Abstract: A curtain airbag apparatus includes a series of main chambers formed to flatways cover an inner side structure of the vehicle upon inflation; and a head receiving region formed at a front portion of the curtain airbag concavely upwardly in a length direction of the vehicle to receive a head of an occupant when the head of the occupant comes into contact with a driver seat airbag and slide in front and lateral directions of the vehicle in an inflated state of the driver seat airbag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventor: Yong Hyun JUNG
  • AN ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT
    Publication number: 20180014413
    Abstract: An electronic control unit (1) having a housing (2) containing a circuit board (5). The housing (2) includes a base (3) and a cover (4) between which the circuit board (5) is located, and the unit being characterised in that the base (3) and the cover (4) are connected to one another via interference fit interengagement around at least a major part of a peripheral edge (20) of the cover (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Norbert Karszt, Sebastian Hetzel
  • Curtain Air-Bag Device
    Publication number: 20170327073
    Abstract: A curtain airbag device capable of preventing a cushion from damaging a front pillar trim or being caught by the front pillar trim upon deployed. A cushion 102 of a curtain airbag device 100 is inflated and deployed at a side wall of a vehicle interior to restrain an occupant. The curtain airbag device 100 includes: a cushion 102 having a bag shape and inflated and deployed on the vehicle front side of a passenger seat; and a first strap 148. The first strap 148 has one end 156 attached to a front pillar 104 and the other end 162 attached on the vehicle inner side of the cushion 102 in an elongate stored form. The first strap 148 moves to the vehicle inner side and is strained by inflation and deployment of the cushion 102 pushing out a front pillar trim 184 that covers the front pillar 104 to the vehicle inner side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventor: Takashi Arima
  • Vehicle safety system
    Patent number: 9809194
    Abstract: A safety system for a motor vehicle having at least a front wheel arrangement having one or more wheels and rear wheel arrangement having one or more wheels, the arrangement having: a control unit; and one or more vehicle inertial sensors to detect acceleration experienced by the vehicle, the inertial sensors being connected to the control unit so the control unit receives output signals from the inertial sensors; and one or more vehicle safety systems which may be activated by the control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to process the signals received from the inertial sensors and to determine whether at least one of the wheels of the front and rear wheel arrangements is not in contact with the surface over which the vehicle is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: Autoliv Development AB, Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Moroine Laoufi, Alessandro Zin, Peter Harda, Pär Nilsson, Anders Axelsson, Anders Wogel
  • Pyrotechnic igniter
    Patent number: 9809191
    Abstract: A pyrotechnic igniter includes at least one pyrotechnic material designed to be ignited by a heating element, a case enclosing the at least one pyrotechnic material, and a plastic overmoulding of the case, forming a fixation interface of the igniter and designed to be inserted into a fixation orifice of a support up to an inserted position. The fixation interface of the plastic overmoulding includes at least one deformable part designed to elastically deform during passage into the fixation orifice and assume during an elastic return a blocking position against the support when the igniter is in the inserted position in order to prevent any withdrawal of the igniter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Marcus Weber, Raimund Nebel, Andreas Guggenberger
  • VEHICLE AIRBAG
    Publication number: 20170313276
    Abstract: A vehicle airbag includes a main panel to form a main chamber deployed toward an inner part of a vehicle, and a protrusion panel provided outside the main panel to form at least one protrusion chamber that communicates with the main chamber and protrudes toward the inner part of the vehicle based on the main chamber. The protrusion panel is folded to have a wrinkle part when the vehicle airbag is not inflated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Wan-Dong YOO, Yong Hyun JUNG, Tae Ik GWON, Dong Young KIM
  • Airbag Apparatus
    Publication number: 20170217397
    Abstract: An airbag device capable of restraining a motor vehicle occupant in a stable position even in an oblique collision. The airbag device includes a bag-shaped main bag inflated and deployed on a vehicle front side of the passenger seat, a bag-shaped center bag inflated and deployed on the inner side of the main bag in the vehicle widthwise direction, and a slit that provides a separation between the main bag and the center bag on the vehicle rear side. A rear end part of the center bag is inclined to gradually protrude rearward in the vehicle as the rear end part is extended upward and protrudes further to the vehicle rear side than at least the main bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sumiya, Kai Maenishi, Yutaka Nakajima
  • Automobile Steering Wheel
    Publication number: 20170166156
    Abstract: A steering wheel of a vehicle includes a steering wheel armature made of metal, a steering wheel rear cover made of plastic, and an airbag module. The steering wheel rear cover is located on a bottom of the steering wheel armature and the airbag module is mounted above the steering wheel armature. An ? spring assembles the airbag module onto the armature. At least a supporting rib extends from the steering wheel rear cover and is located between the ? spring and the steering wheel armature for supporting the ? spring. The supporting rib erases a gap between the ? spring and the steering wheel armature and it is formed by plastic, thereby reducing noise efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Chunyu LI, Songlin BU, Zhiyong JIANG
  • SIDE CURTAIN AIRBAG FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170151925
    Abstract: A side curtain airbag for a vehicle includes a serial main chamber that inflates and deploys along an interior side surface of the vehicle; a protruding chamber disposed at a front side of the main chamber to further protrude toward an interior of the vehicle relative to the main chamber; and a cutting line arranged between the main chamber and the protruding chamber to partially separate the protruding chamber from the main chamber such that the protruding chamber overlaps with a portion of the main chamber upon non-inflation of the airbag. In this configuration, upon a vehicle collision, the head portion of the occupant is prevented early from being ejected toward the front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Chi Ho KIM, Tae Ik GWON, Yong Hyun JUNG
  • IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO AIR-BAGS
    Publication number: 20170120857
    Abstract: An air-bag for a motor vehicle is formed from first and second superposed layers of fabric, each woven from a plurality of yarns. The layers of fabric are connected to each other at least partially through interweaving of the yarns of the two layers with each other. The air-bag includes at least one inflatable region, in which the two layers of fabric are substantially not connected to each other, and at least one non-inflatable region. There is a first number of crossing points of yarns that form the one layer of fabric, and there is a second number of connections between the two layers, wherein at each connection a yarn of the layer of fabric extends across to the other layer and passes over the far side of the a yarn of the other layer, and wherein the second number is no more than 0.0033 times the first number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Gary WOOTTON, Helen DEAN
  • A VEHICLE LOW PRESSURE BRAKE ARRANGEMENT
    Publication number: 20170036651
    Abstract: A vehicle braking arrangement includes a braking plate connected to a vehicle by a link arm. The braking plate is movable from a rest position to a braking position where contact is made with the ground, and includes a sealing rim arranged to at least partially contact the ground such that an at least partly enclosed volume is formed. The vehicle braking arrangement includes an expandable chamber formed between a lower plate, at least one connecting side wall and an upper plate, which chamber is connectable to the volume. Upon activation, the chamber's volume is expanded by movement of the lower plate away from the upper plate. Then the pressure is lowered in the volume which results in that the braking plate is pressed against the ground. In this way, a retaining force is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Christian SVENSSON, Dan BRÅSE, Erik RYDSMO, Jan-Erik KÄLLHAMMER
  • Vehicle safety system
    Patent number: 9555758
    Abstract: A safety arrangement for a vehicle. The safety arrangement has a control unit; one or more sensors, a road detection arrangement; and one or more vehicle safety systems. The control unit processes the signals from the sensors and determines whether the vehicle is travelling over rough terrain, entering a ditch-like feature, or is airborne. The control unit will activate one or more of the vehicle safety systems if it is determined that the vehicle is travelling over rough terrain, entering a ditch-like feature, or is airborne. Signals, or derived quantities, from the sensors are compared against a threshold to determine whether to activate a vehicle safety system. A first threshold level is used if the vehicle has not or is not likely to leave the road, and a second threshold level is used if the vehicle has or is likely to leave the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: Autoliv Development AB, Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Yann Le Merrer, Arnaud Devavry, Pär Nilsson
  • A Vehicle Braking Arrangement
    Publication number: 20170015287
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle braking arrangement for a vehicle with wheels contacting the ground during normal running. The vehicle braking arrangement includes an emergency brake control unit, a first emergency braking system including non-reversible braking means arranged to operate independently of the vehicle wheels, at least one acceleration detector, and a wheel brake anti-locking system. The emergency brake control unit is arranged to input acceleration data (a) when the wheel brake anti-locking system is active, and to calculate the coefficient of friction (?) between the wheels and the ground. The emergency brake control unit is arranged to determine if the first emergency braking system should be activated in dependence of a first plurality of parameters, where one of these parameters is the coefficient of friction (?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Ulrich Sander, Christian Svenson