Abstract: A vehicle steering wheel having a rim to be gripped by a driver of the vehicle, a trim casing arranged to cover a body of the rim so as to at least partially form an outer surface of the rim, a flexible heating device inserted between the trim casing and the body of the rim, comprising at least one heating track, wherein the heating track is a surface track deposited on the flexible heating device, and in that the rim body comprises at least one groove arranged to house at least one part of the flexible heating device, said at least one part comprising a portion of the surface track.

Abstract: A buckle assembly and a seat belt buckle. The buckle assembly includes a buckle configured to engage with a latch plate to secure a seat belt to a seat. The buckle assembly further includes a force-limiting module connected to the buckle and configured to define a force threshold. The force-limiting module includes: a mandrel having a hollow structure and rotatably supported at two axial ends; a torsion bar positioned in a hollow inner cavity of the mandrel to be arranged coaxially with the mandrel, only a portion of the torsion bar being connected to the mandrel in a co-rotatable manner; and a winding component having a winding portion wound around an outer circumferential surface of the mandrel and a fixing portion fixed to the buckle.

Abstract: To provide an airbag device provided in a steering wheel, which enables an airbag module to be made smaller so as to be compatible with a steering wheel having a smaller center pad than conventional ones. The airbag device includes an airbag module containing an airbag cushion and a cylindrical inflator that supplies inflator gas to the airbag cushion, a damper unit that dampens vibrations transmitted between the airbag module and the steering wheel, a mounting member formed of a plate material and to which the inflator and the damper unit are assembled, and an elastic member that is provided between the mounting member and the steering wheel and elastically holds the airbag module to the steering wheel. The mounting member is formed with a circular through-hole part for press-fitting the inflator to secure the inflator, and a retaining part for holding the damper unit.

Abstract: A method for occupant protection in a vehicle, a vehicle occupant protection system, a vehicle and a computer readable medium. The vehicle comprising at least one seat for accommodating an occupant, wherein the seat is slidably connected with the vehicle by a connection mechanism, and wherein the seat is lockable in a defined seating position by a locking mechanism, to prevent sliding in the connection mechanism when locked and to allow sliding when unlocked, the method comprising determining an imminent or ongoing vehicle crash; determining a seating position; upon the determination of the seat being an in a rearward seating position and the occurrence of an imminent or ongoing vehicle crash; unlocking the locking mechanism to allow the sliding of the seat from the rearward seating position towards a conventional driving seating position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a load-bearing seat belt retractor for a seat structure of a vehicle seat. The seat belt retractor has two housing halves, between which functional modules of the seat belt retractor are arranged. One functional module is a belt spool with a winding axis, wherein a plurality of support plates oriented perpendicularly to the winding axis is provided on the functional modules, each said support plate having at least two locking noses, and the locking noses engage into corresponding locking holes in the two housing halves. The housing halves have beads and/or reinforcements directed toward the functional modules, and at least one section of a functional module and/or a section of a support plate is supported against the beads and/or reinforcements in at least one direction parallel to the winding axis.

Abstract: A steering wheel for a vehicle is described. This steering wheel comprises a steering wheel body comprising a grounding feature adapted for being connected to the vehicle ground and at least one electronic assembly being secured to the steering wheel body. The electronic assembly comprises an electronic component, a signal terminal and an assembly-side grounding area being electrically connected to a body-side grounding area of the grounding feature of the steering wheel body. In order to ease the assembly process, at least one electrically conductive and resilient contact element extends between the assembly-side grounding area and the first body-side grounding area. This electrically conductive and resilient contact element is under mechanical tension such that it transfers a force between the steering wheel body and the electric electronic assembly.

Abstract: An airbag-helmet having a protective main body (10) having an inner surface pointing towards the head of the user when the helmet is worn, and an outer surface pointing away from the head of the user when the helmet is worn. Further, an inflator (40) and an airbag (30) being attached to the protective main body (10) at least indirectly and being in fluid communication to the inflator (40) are provided. The airbag (30) includes at least one tubular protection section (30a, 30b, 30c) extending from the outer surface of the protective main body (10) when the airbag (30) is filled with gas by the inflator (40).

Abstract: A self-locking belt retractor comprising a belt shaft which is rotatably mounted in a frame, wherein a safety belt can be wound up said belt shaft, a blocking device which blocks the belt shaft if a predetermined feed-out acceleration of the safety belt in the feed-out direction of the safety belt is exceeded, and comprising a control disc device mounted on the belt shaft, the control disc device comprising a control disc and an inert mass which is mounted on the control disc so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis.

Abstract: Providing of a gripping determination system and gripping determination method enabling detecting whether or not the driver is gripping the steering device with higher accuracy. A gripping determination system that determines a gripping state of a steering device having an electrode on a part of a steering device of a vehicle, includes: an electrostatic capacitance detecting part that detects electrostatic capacitance of the electrode, a steering torque sensor that detects steering torque of the steering wheel shaft, and a determining part that determines whether or not the steering device is being gripped based on detection results of the electrostatic capacitance detecting part and the steering torque sensor.

Abstract: The present invention provides an occupant state detection device to which a touchpad and a grip sensor are both provided and in which the grip sensor and the touchpad can operate normally and a computer program. The occupant state detection device comprises: a steering wheel having a touchpad that can be operated using electrostatic capacitance and a grip sensor that detects whether a driver is gripping a rim portion; an operation determination unit that makes an operation determination regarding whether the touchpad is being operated; and a grip determination unit that makes a grip determination regarding whether the rim portion of the steering wheel is being gripped.

Abstract: A vehicle steering wheel device enabling miniaturizing an airbag module and also a miniaturized horn pad portion while ensuring a damping effect comparable to a conventional damping effect. Each damper has a straight pin, a grip provided at a first end is engaged to a central cored bar through rotate operation around the pin axis, and a connecting tip end part that connects to the module housing is provided at the other end. A plurality of insertion holes through which the connecting tip end part is inserted are arranged in the module housing surrounding the outer edge of the inflator, and the connecting tip end part is formed with a constricted portion having an outer diameter smaller than the diameter of the insertion hole, and the connecting tip end part is connected to the module housing via a set spring supported by the module housing to engage the constriction.

Abstract: Gas generator comprising: a first chamber having first pressurized gases and a first outlet port, a second chamber with second pressurized gases and a second outlet port, a diffusion zone, arranged to receive and diffuse towards an airbag the first pressurized gases and the second pressurized gases, wherein the first pressurized gases and the second pressurized gases are arranged to react together once they are mixed, characterized in that the gas generator comprises at least one deflector arranged to impose on the first pressurized gases a first discharge trajectory in the separate diffusion zone of a second discharge trajectory of the second pressurized gases.

Abstract: A side airbag device for a vehicle, comprising: an airbag cushion that is built into a backrest of a seat and inflated and deployed so as to correspond to the entire side surface of an occupant's upper body in the event of a side impact crash of the vehicle; and an inflator that generates gas according to an impact detection signal in the event of the side impact crash of the vehicle to supply the gas to the airbag cushion, wherein the airbag cushion is configured such that the height of upward inflation and deployment is expanded by contact with the occupant's arm, thereby avoiding interference with a curtain airbag at the initial stage of deployment of the airbag cushion and safely protecting the head of the occupant by expanding an upper chamber thereof upward by contact with the occupant's arm.

Abstract: A seatbelt retractor with a seatbelt shaft and a control cam mounted thereon, and an electrically actuatable blocking device, the electrically actuatable blocking device stopping the control cam with respect to the seatbelt shaft by engagement of the blocking lever into the toothing system of the control cam and, as a result, forcing a locking pawl to perform a movement, in which it passes for engagement into a toothing system, fixed to the vehicle, of the seatbelt retractor and blocks the seatbelt shaft in the pull-out direction, wherein—the blocking lever has a lever arm which projects outwards from the first limb and on which a first spring acts with a first end, which first spring preloads the blocking lever into a position in which it engages into the toothing system of the control cam with a blocking tip arranged at the end of a blocking arm.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a vehicle sensor device and a seat belt retractor employing same, the vehicle sensor device comprising: a body forming the outer appearance thereof; a cover coupled to one opened surface of the body; a sensor housing rotatably installed in the body according to the inclination of a backrest and the installation angle of the body; a ball installed in the sensor housing and detecting the inclination of a vehicle and the change of acceleration; and a sensor lever disposed over the ball and having one end rotatably coupled to the sensor housing, wherein the sensor lever is configured to allow a pilot lever provided in a locking device to linearly reciprocate by a rotational movement according to the movement of the ball so that the sensor lever is installed in the senser housing in which the ball is installed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat for a motor vehicle, comprising a backrest (10), a seat (11) and an airbag device, wherein the airbag device comprises at least one airbag module (12) and at least one arrestor strap mechanism, wherein the at least one airbag module (12) comprises at least one airbag (14) and the at least one arrestor strap mechanism comprises at least one arrestor strap arrangement (2) and at least one tensioning device (3) for the arrestor strap arrangement (2), wherein one end of the arrestor strap 10 arrangement (2) is attached to the airbag (14), wherein the tensioning device (3) is arranged on the seat (11).

Abstract: A pyrotechnic circuit breaker comprising: a housing, an electrical conductor passing through the housing, at least one blade, able to move so as to cut at least one portion of the electrical conductor, the breaking of the electrical conductor defining a cut area separating a first cut end of the electrical conductor from a second cut end of the electrical conductor, a pyrotechnic actuator, the circuit breaker having a first arc path allowing a first electric arc to be established directly from the first cut end to the second cut end, characterized in that the circuit breaker comprises conductive cooling features so as to have a secondary arc path passing through a first conductive cooling feature and through a secondary conductive cooling feature or a last conductive cooling feature.

Abstract: An optical inspection device designed for testing an optical component such as a protective glass, an optical transmission system of a welding laser beam having a laser wavelength, comprising: a light source designed to emit a test light, receiving means designed to receive at least a portion of the test light and to quantify at least one quantity of the received light, means for holding the optical component designed to position the optical component between the light source and the receiving means, characterized in that: the portion of the test light received by the receiving means has a wavelength at ±20% of the laser wavelength.

Abstract: An airbag device comprising: a cushion that is rolled and stowed at an upper part of a side surface and expands and deploys along the side surface, an inflator that is inserted in the cushion and provides gas to the cushion, and a tab for suspending the cushion from the upper part of the side surface, wherein the cushion includes: a duct provided with a tab extending in the front-to-back direction of the vehicle at the upper part of the side surface and that expands and deploys due to inflow of gas, a main chamber positioned below the duct, and a sub chamber provided at the upper part of the side surface, the upper end of the sub chamber is positioned above the upper edge of the side window, and the lower end of the sub chamber is positioned below the upper end of the duct.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat back frame constituting a framework of the vehicle seat; a retractor received in an internal space of the seat back frame; and headrest poles which vertically extend through the retractor and are mounted to the retractor. The retractor may be mounted at an upper end of the seat back frame. By mounting the retractor within the seat back frame, instead of a separate mounting space, the thickness of the seat back in the forward/backward directions may be reduced, thereby thinning the seat and enlarging the passenger compartment.