Abstract: A vehicle braking arrangement includes a braking plate and a link arm arranged to connect the braking plate to a vehicle. The braking plate is movable from a rest position to a braking position where contact is made with the ground. The braking plate is arranged for a first mode of operation, corresponding to the rest position, and a second mode of operation, corresponding to the braking position. In the first mode of operation, the braking plate has a first contact area arranged to face the ground, and in the second mode of operation, the braking plate has a second contact area arranged to face the ground. The second area exceeds the first area.

Abstract: A circuit breaker includes at least one electrical conductor for connection to an electrical circuit, a housing, a matrix, a punch movable relative to the housing to pass from a first position to a second position, and a pyrotechnical actuator to make the punch pass from the first position to the second position when ignited. The punch and matrix are arranged to form a punch-matrix unit designed, when the punch passes from the first position to the second position to break the at least one electrical conductor into at least two distinct parts, and establishing, between the punch and the matrix, at least one electrical arc between the at least two distinct parts when the circuit breaker is connected to a live electrical circuit. When the punch is in the second position, the punch-matrix unit allows at least one passage between the at least two distinct parts. The at least one passage is designed to guide the at least one electrical arc between the distinct parts.

Abstract: A reversible seat belt retractor including an electric motor (2), a belt shaft (1) on which a seatbelt is windable, a drive wheel (10) disposed coaxial to the belt shaft (1), and a coupling (11) provided between the belt shaft (1) and the drive wheel (10). The electric motor (2) includes an extended drive shaft (12), via which the electric motor (2) is in direct driving connection with the drive wheel (10).

Abstract: A curtain airbag for a vehicle has a main chamber shaped in the position being mounted on the vehicle, in the inflated state covering an inner side structure of the vehicle. The curtain airbag has an additional chamber which, in the mounting position, is located at the in driving direction of the vehicle front portion of the main chamber, and deploys in the direction of the interior of the vehicle when the curtain airbag is inflated. The additional chamber is attached to the main chamber so as to be positioned in the inflated state between the front portion of the main chamber and an occupant to be restrained by the curtain airbag.

Abstract: An airbag module includes an inflatable folded or rolled airbag, a gas generator for inflating the airbag. The airbag module includes a metallic bracket with a U-shaped cross section, which embraces the folded or rolled airbag, and which includes at least two attachment points for an attachment of the airbag module at two distanced attachment points at a vehicle fixed structure. The metallic bracket is designed to be attached with facing the open space between two opposing legs of the U-shaped cross section towards the interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A safety device for use in a vehicle includes an air-bag inflatable by a gas source. At least part of the air-bag is woven and includes a plurality of generally parallel woven yarns. An elongate tether is attached to the air-bag by an attachment arrangement including a first portion in which part of the tether passes between two adjacent yarns of the air-bag from one side to another side of the air-bag and partly around at least two adjacent yarns on one side of the air-bag. The arrangement incorporates a second portion in which the tether is interwoven with a pre-determined number of single adjacent yarns of the air-bag. The arrangement incorporates a third portion in which the tether passes between two adjacent yarns of the air-bag from one side to another side of the air-bag and partly around at least two adjacent yarns on one side of the air-bag.

Abstract: A safety module for a motor vehicle includes at least one airbag with a first fixation interface and at least one actuating device. The at least one actuating device includes an igniter and an igniter support. The igniter has a plastic overmoulding forming a second fixation interface. The igniter support has a third fixation interface designed to receive and fix the second fixation interface. The at least one actuating device retains the first fixation interface by sandwiching it between at least one part of the second fixation intervace and at least one part of the third fixation interface.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted radar device providing stabilized performance and enabling a radar main body to be installed easily on a radar bracket. Radar device 100 includes radar main body 106 and a radar bracket 108 for installing on a vehicle. The radar bracket 108 forms an opening area 140 which exposes a transmission and reception surface 112 of the radar main body 106. One or more support parts which are provided on the side plate part 116, and support the radar main body 106 by contacting a side surface 128, or the transmission and reception surface 112 form a withdrawn shape 160 at the end of each of the support parts near the center of the transmission and reception surface 112 and is inclined toward the side distant from the center of the transmission and reception surface 112 and toward the outside of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method of packaging an air-bag includes providing an air-bag having a base. A first part of the air-bag is folded at least partly towards the base of the air-bag and additionally folded such that the first part of the air-bag incorporates at least one Z-fold. The first part of the air-bag and a second part of the air-bag are at least partly rolled towards the base of the air-bag to package the air-bag.

Abstract: A vehicular side airbag apparatus including chambers corresponding to an occupant's shoulder, lumbar, and chest and having three-dimensional shapes formed by baffles inside a side airbag and providing a thickness. The first baffle extends in a vehicular front-rear direction and is joined to a rear edge 103a of a side airbag 103 at a rear end 107b of the first baffle. The second baffle extends in a vehicular up-down direction and has an overlap portion 109 which is set at a longitudinally intermediate position of the second baffle and to which a longitudinally front end 107c of the first baffle is connected along with a vehicular interior panel 105 and a vehicular exterior panel 106. Longitudinal both ends 108b and 108c of the second baffle are joined to an outer peripheral edge of the side airbag 103.

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 whell 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.

Abstract: A vehicle collision mitigation system (2) and method having a detecting device (3) and a control unit (4). The detecting device (3) being arranged to detect a certain field of view (6) defining a trigger area having an adjustable trigger width that is defined by trigger borders (9a, 9b; 10a, 10b) and is adjustable between a minimum trigger width (wmin) and a maximum trigger width (wmax). The collision mitigation system (2) is arranged to issue a system trigger signal at least in dependence of an object being determined to at least partly being present within the trigger borders if a collision is predicted to occur. The adjustable trigger width (w) is adjustable in dependence of the number of system trigger signals that have been issued during a certain time period.

Abstract: A D-ring assembly for an inflatable belt of a vehicle includes a patch bracket, in which a portion of the patch bracket supporting a D-ring is inclined forward with respect to a portion of the patch bracket fixed to a pillar of the vehicle; and the D-ring installed at the patch bracket to be rotatable in a left or right direction, so that the two-layer webbing is guided toward the front of a wearer, allowing a passenger to easily wear the webbing.

Abstract: A vehicle steering wheel includes a rim having a cavity, and a device arranged in the cavity of the rim. The vehicle steering wheel further includes a hood designed to close the cavity and a polymer injected around the rim and around the hood. A sealing means is arranged to prevent the polymer from being introduced into the cavity during its injection.

Abstract: The arrangement for disconnecting at least one of a plurality of battery modules in an automotive battery comprises a device arranged to detect that at least one battery module is to be disconnected, and a bypass switch arranged at each battery module, wherein the bypass switch arranged at the detected at least one battery module is controllable to bypass the at least one detected battery module via a bypass path. The arrangement further comprises a disconnect switch arranged at each battery module, wherein the disconnect switch arranged at the at least one bypassed battery module is controllable to disconnect the at least one detected battery module from remaining battery modules, either simultaneously as, or after, the bypassing of the detected battery module.

Abstract: An airbag for a knee airbag apparatus which is rapidly deployed upward between the knees of a passenger and instrument panel includes a front panel; a rear panel coupled to the front panel to form an inflation chamber; and a hinge portion having a thin inflation thickness at a position corresponding to a housing connecting portion, at which the instrument panel is coupled to the housing, when the airbag is inflated.

Abstract: An apparatus for damping vibrations of an airbag or of an airbag device (10) having a holder device (20) for securing the airbag or the airbag device (10) to a carrier (30), wherein the holder device (20) is secured to the carrier (30) so as to be displaceable against a spring force, and a damping device (70) is arranged between the holder device (20) and the carrier (30), wherein the holder device (20) is guided in one of the guide bushings (50) secured to the carrier (30), and the guide bushing (50) is supported in a vibration-damped manner on the carrier (30).

Abstract: A curtain airbag capable of applying tension in a vertical direction to improve occupant ejection mitigation performance. The curtain airbag is housed in an upper portion of a side surface inside a vehicle cabin and deployed along the side surface. The curtain airbag includes: a main chamber having a protection area for the occupant, and receiving an inflation gas and being inflated along a side window of a vehicle; a first chamber that overlaps an upper edge of the side window of the vehicle, the first chamber extends by being deployed toward an upper side of the main chamber along the upper portion of the side surface inside the vehicle cabin. The main chamber includes a second chamber positioned in a below portion of the first chamber to overlap the vehicle beltline upon deployment.

Abstract: An inflatable curtain airbag assembly has a tubular rolled or folded curtain airbag, and at least one stiffening member provided at the tubular rolled or folded curtain airbag. The stiffening member is fixed by an adhesive connection, a sewing connection, a welding connection or a melting connection directly to the curtain airbag.

Abstract: The invention relates to a safety belt retractor that has a two-spring comfort function, a belt shaft which is rotatably mounted in a housing and on which a safety belt can be wound, and at least two return springs that are spring-loaded in the winding direction of the belt and act between the housing and the belt shaft. The return springs being able to be connect by one end to the belt shaft or the housing by means of a shift device that shifts as a function of the extraction length of the safety belt.