Patents Assigned to Autoliv Developement AB
  • Patent number: 12060026
    Abstract: A hanging lug for a safety airbag includes a first sewing piece, a second sewing piece, and a connecting piece. The first sewing piece and the second sewing piece are respectively provided at two ends of the connecting piece. The connecting piece is used for passing through a slit of a metal member. The connecting piece is folded in half after passing through the metal member. The first sewing piece and the second sewing piece are arranged in a staggered manner. Also provided is a safety airbag. The connecting piece is folded in half after passing through the metal member, and the first sewing piece and the second sewing piece are arranged in a staggered manner, thereby increasing the total sewing line length of the hanging lug, preventing an OPW from being damaged, reducing the number of sewn layers, and facilitating sewing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Dengyang Zhang, Dongjun Li, Jiao Wen, Pengfei Guo
  • Patent number: 12060030
    Abstract: A safety airbag device, including a safety airbag having an inflated state and a stowed state, a gas generator, used to generate gas to inflate the safety airbag so that the safety airbag enters the inflated state; and a deflector, used to guide the gas generated by the gas generator before the gas generated by the gas generator enters the safety airbag. The deflector includes a first cavity and a second cavity. The first cavity includes a first gas inlet and a first gas outlet. The second cavity includes a second gas inlet and a second gas outlet. The first gas outlet and the second gas inlet are in fluid communication with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Wujian Chen, Xiaoyu Liang, Shaobing Shao, Liang Huang
  • Patent number: 12049187
    Abstract: A safety airbag, including: an air bag, having an inflated and stowed state; and a gas generator, used to inflate the air bag to the inflated state, wherein the air bag includes a body portion and a cut-out portion, the cut-out portion being formed as being cut out from the air bag, but still remaining integral with the body portion, and in the inflated state, the cut-out portion being oriented in a predetermined direction relative to the body portion via an orienting member. Using the cut-out portion to provide protection for the head of an occupant increases the utilization rate of a material for making an air bag. In addition, the height of the airbag curtain is relatively large only at the cut-out portion, and is relatively small at the remaining positions, thereby reducing the volume of the air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Shaobing Shao
  • Patent number: 12049185
    Abstract: An airbag assembly includes: an air bag, mounted to a vehicle seat and capable of inflating from an undeployed state to a deployed state, wherein in the deployed state, the air bag extends along the head and torso of an occupant in the vehicle seat, arranged to surround the head and torso of the occupant; and a strap, for mounting the air bag to the vehicle seat and having a first section and a second section, wherein in the deployed state, the strap is tightened, the first section being mounted to the air bag on an outer surface of the air bag in an extension direction of the air bag, and the second section extending on at least one outer side surface of the air bag in a direction at an angle with respect to the extension direction of the air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventor: Kan Wang
  • Patent number: 12043209
    Abstract: A seat belt retractor, with a belt shaft mounted rotatably in a frame, a blocking device for blocking the belt shaft in an extension direction of the seat belt, a control device having a control disc with a toothing for activating the blocking device, an electric actuator with a first blocking lever, which is spring-loaded into the toothing of the control disc in an engagement direction, an ECL blocking lever which, in a first position, blocks the first blocking lever of the actuator during a first belt band extension in a position in which said blocking lever does not engage in the toothing of the control disc, and an LC blocking lever which, in a first position, blocks the first blocking lever of the actuator when a predetermined belt band extension length is fallen short of in a first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Antto-Christian Glässer, Markus Hueg, Florian Künzler
  • Patent number: 12036919
    Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle steering wheel rim, comprising a holding body comprising at least one internal wall with at least one opening, at least one light source arranged to emit light, a diffuser arranged to diffuse the light coming from the at least one light source towards the vehicle occupant, a light guide arranged to guide the light emitted from the at least one light source towards the diffuser, wherein the light guide comprises a light collecting face arranged on a first side of the opening, a light emitting face arranged on a second side of the opening, and the light guide is also engaged with the diffuser to shape it with a predetermined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Olivier Bertrand, Hugues Doursoux
  • Patent number: 12040144
    Abstract: A pyrotechnic switch having a casing, at least one electrical conductor passing through the casing, a piston housed in the casing, the piston-casing assembly being designed to cut the electrical conductor at least at three separate locations, so as to form at least two free conductive strands, separate from the rest of the electrical conductor, a pyrotechnic actuator designed to force the piston to cut the electrical conductor, wherein the piston-casing assembly is designed to cut the electrical conductor such that each free strand has at least one base portion with either no or two folded wings arranged on either side of the base portion, and to create at least one free strand with two folded wings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Valentin Primel, Francois Gaudinat, Jean Champendal, Ludovic Lageat, Philippe Fernandez, Gildas Clech, Catherine Lebarh
  • Patent number: 12030430
    Abstract: A steering wheel. The steering wheel includes a steering wheel rim and a light-emitting assembly, the steering wheel rim having an inner cavity, and the light-emitting assembly being provided in the inner cavity so as to be used to cause the steering wheel rim to emit light, wherein the light-emitting assembly includes a light source, a first printed circuit board, and a second printed circuit board, wherein the light source is provided on the first printed circuit board, the second printed circuit board being provided with a control assembly for controlling the light source, the second printed circuit board being configured to control the light source by means of an electrical connection with the first printed circuit board, the first printed circuit board being configured to be a flexible circuit board, and the second printed circuit board being configured to be a rigid circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Linlin Xu, Liang Ding, Xiaoshan Lu
  • Patent number: 12024219
    Abstract: A vehicle steering wheel, comprising: —a framework (10) consisting of an electroconductive material; at least one sensor for detecting the position and/or contact (20) of a limb of the user on the steering wheel; at least one decorative part (30) comprising an electroconductive material; fixing means arranged so as to hold the decorative part (30) on the steering wheel; and at least one anchoring part (42) arranged so as to secure the fixing means onto the framework (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Gweltaz Jacq, Thierry Matrat, Jonathan Boittiaux, Vincent Lemevel, David Sourisseau
  • Patent number: 12024254
    Abstract: To provide a motorcycle airbag device that contributes to the stabilization of the deployment behavior and the deployment posture of the airbag. An airbag device mounted on a motorcycle having a gas generator that generates an expansion gas, where the airbag is expanded by the expansion gas, and by deploying in front of the occupant, restrains forward movement of the occupant. Furthermore, the airbag has a stepped portion that protrudes forward when deployed and is supported by a structural portion around the top of the handlebars of the motorcycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Makoto Fuma, Sho Murakami, Ryota Ishigaki, Masaru Habu
  • Patent number: 12024111
    Abstract: A driver seat airbag apparatus includes a steering wheel and an airbag module. The steering wheel has a central hub and a rim. The rim has a shape in which a portion of the upper portion of the rim is omitted. The hub includes: a module housing part which houses the airbag module; and a cover which covers the module housing and is cleavable at the expansion pressure of the cushion. The cover includes cover doors which open at the expansion pressure of the cushion. When the cover is cleaved, the cover doors are open in the right and left diagonal upward directions when viewed from the center of the hub, while a space portion without the cover doors is formed in the direction directly above the center of the hub when viewed from the center of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Kazuki Morita, Kazuhiro Abe
  • Patent number: 12005850
    Abstract: An airbag that prevents heavy interference with the head of an occupant during expansion and deployment even when the occupant is not seated in a vehicle seat in a regular position is configured to be positioned to the sides of the center in the left-right direction of a vehicle seat and has a pair of chambers physically coupled by a coupling section that deploy forward of the occupant when expansion and deployment are complete. The pair of chambers are independent during expansion and deployment and expand and deploy frontward from both the left and right sides of the vehicle seat, having side protecting chambers that cover at least the side sections of the occupant. The side protecting chambers are coupled by coupling sections positioned to the sides of the center in the left-right direction of the vehicle seat, and the coupling section is thinner than the side protecting chambers at least during initial expansion and deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshiki Ito
  • Patent number: 11993218
    Abstract: An occupant protecting device provided inside or below a seat cushion of a vehicle seat, comprising an airbag cushion capable of expanding and deploying a seat surface of the seat cushion; and an inflator. The airbag cushion includes a lower panel, an upper panel longer than the lower panel in the front-rear direction of the vehicle seat, and mutually opposing side panels joined to the lower panel and the upper panel. The airbag cushion has a first mounting point attached to the vehicle seat side and a second mounting point attached to the vehicle seat side on the rear side of the first mounting point in the front-rear direction of the vehicle seat. The lower panel and the upper panel are mutually joined to a first mounting point and a second mounting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventor: Ryota Ishigaki
  • Patent number: 11993220
    Abstract: A driver seat airbag device includes an airbag cushion installed at a center portion 108 of a steering wheel of a vehicle which is configured to expand and deploy toward an occupant in a driver seat; and an inflator that supplies gas to the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion includes a steering side panel provided on the steering wheel side and an occupant side panel joined to the occupant side of the steering side panel. The shape of the expanded and deployed airbag cushion is such that the portion, which is the largest area of the cross section orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the steering wheel, is formed further toward the front side of the vehicle than the center portion between the frontmost portion of the steering side panel and the rearmost portion of the occupant side panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Ryota Ishigaki, Yutaka Hirota, Christopher Banatin
  • Patent number: 11987282
    Abstract: Detection device for a steering wheel of a vehicle, said device being configured to detect contact or proximity of a person with or to the steering wheel, comprising sensors, of which there are only three, of which: a first sensor (21) is intended to be arranged on a left-hand half of a first face of the steering wheel, a second sensor (22) is intended to be arranged on a right-hand half of said first face of the steering wheel, and a third sensor (23) is intended to be arranged on a second face opposed to said first face of the steering wheel, and said first face is a rear face of the steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Pierre Sabourin, Nathalie Potel-Charlette, Laurent Groleau
  • Patent number: 11987309
    Abstract: A steering wheel device for a vehicle in which an airbag module is attached with an engagement element that engages with the steering wheel, where the engagement element is provided on the airbag module side and has an engaging part that releasably engages with an engaged part formed on the steering wheel side, the engagement elements include at least a first engagement element positioned below the center of steering and a second engagement element positioned above the center of steering with reference to the neutral position of the steering wheel, and the first engagement element is a vibration damping part having an elastic member and the second engagement element includes a second bushing made of a material having a Young's modulus greater than that of the elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Kaname Tanaka, Keisuke Honma, Kazuhiro Abe
  • Patent number: 11987197
    Abstract: An occupant protection device capable of suppressing the occurrence of submarining and ensuring initial waist restraint performance. An occupant protection device provided inside or below a seat cushion of a vehicle seat, provided with: an airbag cushion capable of expanding and deploying to push up a seat surface of the seat cushion; and an inflator that supplies gas for expansion and deployment into the interior space of the airbag cushion during a vehicle emergency. The airbag cushion includes an expansion and deployment part that expands and deploys by gas from the inflator, and an exhaust vent part protruding from the peripheral edge of the airbag cushion. The expanded and deployed airbag cushion is configured such that the exhaust vent opens and allows the internal space of the expansion and deployment part to communicate with the outside when a load acts on the expansion and deployment part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Ryota Ishigaki, Yutaka Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11981367
    Abstract: A steering wheel configured to rotate about a steering axis, comprising a rim formed of a body molded onto a frame, the body having a first mold release axis, a first groove arranged in the body in a demoldable manner relative to the first mold release axis, a sheathing reinforcement arranged to be inserted into the first groove of the body and at least partially form a second groove, wherein the second groove is arranged to receive an insert in an insertion direction separate from the first mold release axis, and in that the sheathing reinforcement comprises at least one portion which is undercut relative to the first mold release axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventor: Matthis Barritault
  • Patent number: 11964720
    Abstract: An airbag module that serves as a damper mass mounted to the steering wheel surrounding the center of steering of the steering wheel via vibration damping parts, the vehicle steering wheel structure damping steering wheel vibration, wherein the vibration damping parts includes at least a first vibration damping part positioned upward from the center of steering and a second vibration damping part positioned downward from the center of steering with reference to a neutral position of the steering wheel and the spring constant or elastic modulus of the first vibration damping part is set lower than the spring constant or elastic modulus of the second vibration damping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Norihisa Shiraishi, Kazuhiro Abe, Takayuki Kura
  • Patent number: 11964624
    Abstract: An automotive front seat overhead airbag includes a supporting air chamber and a protective air chamber mounted on a roof. The supporting air chamber is inflated from the roof towards a dashboard upon inflation. The protective air chamber is in communication with the supporting air chamber. After the supporting air chamber is inflated, the protective air chamber is inflated from the supporting air chamber towards the human body. A first protective space is reserved between the supporting air chamber and the protective air chamber on a side facing the human body. The first protective space corresponds to the head of the human body for protecting the head and neck of the human body. An automobile includes a roof and a dashboard, and further includes the automotive front seat overhead airbag described above. An upper end of the supporting air chamber is connected to a gas generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Qiang Meng, Jianfei Ma, Ting Wang