Patents Assigned to Autoliv Development AB
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Patent number: 12291163Abstract: A side airbag device comprising a bag-like cushion that is provided to a side section of a seat back of a vehicle seat and inflates and expands toward the side of a passenger in the vehicle seat using a gas. The cushion includes: a first part having four sides and including a first chamber; a second part that has four sides, is adjacent to the first part, and includes a second chamber; and a third part that has four sides, is adjacent to the first part and the second part. When inflated and expanded, the cushion is a triangular column that is a columnar shape having a space open on both the top and bottom and surrounded by the first part in which the first chamber is inflated and expanded, the second part in which the second chamber is inflated and expanded, and the non-inflated third part.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Tsutomu Sakurai
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Patent number: 12291159Abstract: A knee airbag device including an airbag cushion, a storage case in which is formed a horizontally long opening part where the expanded and deployed airbag cushion pops outs, a first flap for covering the airbag cushion exposed through the opening part such that the airbag cushion is retained in the storage case, and having a first weak part that breaks when pressed by the airbag cushion during expansion and deployment, and a second flap, which is a component with a larger dimension in a length direction than the first flap and for covering an outer surface of the first flap so as to transverse in a short direction of the opening part a center part of the airbag cushion in a lateral direction, the second flap having a second weak part that breaks when pressed by the airbag cushion after rupture of the first weak part.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Masaki Ohshino, Teppei Hotta, Shota Inoue, Satoru Arai
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Patent number: 12280730Abstract: A side airbag device stowed in a side part of a vehicle seat and includes: an airbag for restraining an occupant by expanding and deploying; and an inflator provided in a side wall part of a seat frame in the vehicle width direction extending in the vehicle traveling direction when a horizontal cross section of the vehicle seat is viewed from above, and that supplies expansion gas to the airbag. The airbag includes a main chamber that expands and deploys towards the front and a pre-push chamber that expands and deploys before the main chamber to the inside of the main chamber in the vehicle width direction. Furthermore, the pre-push chamber has a structure with an extension portion extending from the inflator towards the rear of the vehicle seat.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Takaki Shibuya
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Patent number: 12275348Abstract: A lighting device (100) for a vehicle steering wheel rim (10), comprising: at least two light sources (120), a light diffuser (130) comprising a collecting face (131) and a diffusion face (132) arranged so as to transmit light emitted by the light sources (120) to an occupant of the vehicle when the lighting device (100) is integrated in the rim (10), characterized in that the collecting face (131) comprises at least two protrusions (133) positioned with respect to the light sources (120) such that the light transmitted by the diffusion face (132) is uniform.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventor: Boubacar Sagna
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Patent number: 12275368Abstract: The pedestrian airbag device includes an airbag cushion that expands and deploys from below the front hood toward the windshield. The airbag cushion has a main chamber covering at least the lower part of the windshield, a pillar chamber covering the A-pillar, provided at both ends of the main chamber in the vehicle width direction, a compartment wall partitioning the main chamber and the pillar chamber, an inner vent penetrating the compartment wall through which gas can pass, a bridge over the inner vent, and a patch attached so as to cover the inner vent on the pillar chamber side of the compartment wall, such that a portion is separable from the compartment wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Akifumi Hanawa, Atsushi Tamura, Satoshi Ito
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Patent number: 12275349Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle steering wheel rim, comprising: —a plurality of light sources arranged so as to emit light towards an external display wall of the rim, —a holding body comprising an internal wall with an elongate opening having a predetermined passage width to allow the light emitted towards the external display wall to pass through, wherein the lighting device comprises at least one bridging element engaged with the holding body and at least partially arranged on an opposite side of the internal wall from the external, display wall, in order to limit any increase in the predetermined passage width.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Olivier Bertrand, Hugues Doursoux, Boubacar Sagna, Pascal Hugaud
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Patent number: 12278068Abstract: A pyrotechnic circuit breaker comprising a housing, at least two connection terminals, an internal electrical circuit connecting the two connection terminals and formed for example by an electrical conductor, an opening member, movable and arranged to open a part to be opened of the internal electrical circuit when moving between an initial position and a final position, so as to form at least two separate portions of conductor after opening, a pyrotechnic actuator arranged to move the opening member from the initial position to the final position, an internal chamber receiving the part to be opened, wherein the internal chamber comprises or contains at least one internal surface formed by a wall formed with a plastic material comprising a flame retardant.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventor: Francois Gaudinat
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Patent number: 12269414Abstract: An airbag device that is stowed in the instrument panel of a vehicle in order to protect an occupant in a passenger seat and includes an inflator for generating expansion gas along with an airbag that inflates and deploys toward the occupant side via gas released from the inflator. The airbag is connected to the inflator and includes a main chamber positioned in front of the occupant properly seated during deployment and a sub chamber connected to at least one side of the main chamber. An inner vent through which gas flows, is formed at a boundary portion of the main chamber and the sub chamber. Furthermore, a check valve for opening and closing the inner vent is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Kaname Tanaka, Kazuki Fujiwara, Kazuhiro Abe
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Patent number: 12269409Abstract: Problem To provide a revolutionary airbag device that can protect an occupant's head from one side, to the front, to the other side. Resolution Means The present invention is an airbag device stored in a vehicle seat, the airbag device including: an inflator for generating expansion gas; and an airbag for deploying from near an upper end of the vehicle seat to protect the periphery of the head of an occupant. Furthermore, the airbag includes: a first chamber for protecting one side of an occupant; a second chamber connected to the first chamber and for protecting the front of the occupant's head; a third chamber connected to the second chamber and for deploying from the front of the occupant's head across to the other side of the occupant; and a fourth chamber connected to the third chamber and for deploying at the other side of the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Ryota Ishigaki, Yutaka Nakajima, Yuka Miura, Ryo Takebayashi, Masaru Habu
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Patent number: 12257972Abstract: The present invention is a side airbag device stowed in a side support part of a vehicle seat, which includes: an airbag capable of expanding and deploying toward a front side from the side support part; an inflator that supplies expansion gas to the airbag; and a bracket that retains the airbag in a compressed state. The inflator is secured to an inner side (occupant side) of a side frame of the vehicle seat. Furthermore, the bracket has a rear region that covers a rear side of the airbag in a compressed state and an inner region that extends continuously forward from the rear region between an inner side of the airbag and a seat pad.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Mitsuo Nogami
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Patent number: 12252089Abstract: A steering wheel enabling suppressing hanging down of an airbag module due to its own weight and stabilizing the position of the airbag module. The steering wheel includes a steering wheel body, an airbag module, and at least one coil spring that biases the airbag module in a direction separating from the steering wheel body. The coil spring is arranged between the steering wheel body and the airbag module in a state with the axis line thereof offset from that of a free state; thereby applying a force on the airbag module in a direction that intersects with the axis line of the coil spring in a free state.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Jinkeun Kim, Hiroyasu Kumagawa, Rodel Go, Hiroaki Asai
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Patent number: 12240400Abstract: The present invention is provided with an inflator arranged on the occupant side of the side frame positioned on the side portion inside the seatback that generates expansion gas and an airbag that is expanded by the expansion gas and protects an occupant seated on the vehicle seat. The airbag includes a main chamber that deploys toward the front of the seatback, and a pre-chamber that houses the inflator inside and is connected to the occupant side of the main chamber. In addition, an internal tether having a front end part connected to the front portion of the pre-chamber and a rear end part connected to the rear portion of the pre-chamber are provided inside the pre-chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Shima
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Patent number: 12221051Abstract: A steering wheel is disclosed enabling suppressing unnecessary rocking of the airbag module during airbag activation and thereby ensures prescribed deployment performance of the airbag cushion. In detail, the steering wheel is provided with a core metal having a boss part configured so as to be mountable on a steering shaft and an airbag module movably provided with respect to the core metal and having an airbag cushion that can be expanded and deployed. The stopper of the core metal is separated from the stopper contact part of the airbag module in a non-activated state of the airbag, and comes into contact with the stopper contact part due to movement or deformation of the airbag module caused by expansion and deployment of the airbag cushion during activation of the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Kazuhiro Abe, Ryotaro Ishida, Sumit Kumar, Keisuke Honma, Jinkeun Kim, Rodel Go, Hiroaki Asai
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Patent number: 12202431Abstract: To prevent outward gas leakage between the airbag cushion and inflator during expansion and deployment with a simple configuration. The present invention provides an airbag device including: an airbag cushion having at least two panels; an inflator that discharges gas inside the airbag cushion; a first piece extending from an edge of a first panel of the two panels that is folded in the middle into the airbag cushion; a second piece provided on a portion near the edge of a second panel facing the first piece inside the airbag cushion and sewn to the folded part of the folded first piece; and an insertion passage for the inflator formed from sewing the folded part and the second piece, and extending from inside the airbag cushion to outside.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Tsutomu Sakurai
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Patent number: 12202424Abstract: An airbag device mounted on a steering wheel of a vehicle having a rim with a shape in which a distance from the center of rotation to an upper edge part is shorter than a distance to the left and right edge parts, including: a gas generator secured to the steering wheel and for generating expansion gas; and an airbag cushion that expands and deploys toward an occupant side by the expansion gas. The airbag cushion has a vent hole for exhausting the expansion gas. Furthermore, when an occupant comes into contact with the expanded and deployed airbag cushion, the airbag cushion deforms toward the front of the vehicle, and when a portion of an upper region of the airbag cushion advances more forward than the rim of the steering wheel, the vent hole is provided at a position that is blocked by contacting an automobile interior component.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Kazuki Morita, Kazuhiro Abe
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Patent number: 12202429Abstract: An airbag device comprises: an airbag including a head-protecting cushion that protects the head of an occupant by being deployed from an upper portion on the left or right side of a vehicle seat; and an inflator that supplies an inflation gas to the airbag. The head-protecting cushion comprises: a first chamber that protects an area near one side of the head of the occupant; a second chamber connected to the first chamber and which protects the front of the head of the occupant; a third chamber connected to the second chamber and which is deployed to span from the front of the head of the occupant to the other side of the head of the occupant; and a fourth chamber connected to the third chamber and which is deployed in an area near the other side of the head of the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuka Miura, Ryota Ishigaki
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Patent number: 12202430Abstract: Provided is a textile for a hollow weave airbag, said textile being suitable for an airbag that has superior packability while satisfying internal pressure retention and abrasion resistance characteristics required from the airbag, and also has superior laceration resistance at the time of airbag deployment.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignees: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Autoliv Development ABInventors: Takumi Kabeya, Yuta Arai
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Patent number: 12194939Abstract: The present invention, includes: a damper unit provided between an airbag module that acts as a damper mass for a steering wheel and the steering wheel to dampen vibrations of the steering wheel, an engagement mechanism provided in the airbag module that maintains the airbag module on the steering wheel in a relatively displaceable manner, and protecting means provided on the airbag module for stopping external forces to the engagement mechanism in a non-engaged state with the steering wheel, that may cause deformation, and thereby protecting the engagement mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Ryoraro Ishida, Sumit Kumar, Kazuhiro Abe, Hiroyoshi Shimono, Keisuke Honma
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Patent number: 12194940Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle steering wheel, comprising: a framework, a safety module comprising a first decorative component, a base component, at least one centering component, attached and fixed to the base component by an irreversible connection and arranged to position the safety module with respect to the base component, at least one second decorative component mounted on the framework, wherein the irreversible connection is arranged to permit an adjustment of the position of the centering component on the base component before fixing the centering component on the base component, characterized in that the irreversible connection is provided by laser welding of the centering component on the base component.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Hugues Doursoux, Mickael Peyrot, Thierry Matrat, Thomas Letierce, Sylvain Perrault, Fabrice Moinard, Olivier Bertrand, Marcus Weber
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Patent number: 12194944Abstract: An airbag device has a first side cushion that expands forward to cover one side of an occupant seated in the seat of the vehicle, a second side cushion that expands forward to cover the other side of the occupant, at least one inflator that injects gas to inflate the first side cushion and the second side cushion, and a connection that connects the first side cushion and the second side cushion. The connecting part is deployed so as to pass through the rear surface region between the seat 1 and the occupant above the seat surface of the seat in the fully expanded state when the expansion and deployment of each side cushion and is complete, and is held in place by the occupant, pulling each side cushion and inward.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Atsushi Nakashima, Yosuke Shimizu, Yoshinori Beppu