Abstract: An airbag includes a body portion, a tether, and a folded portion. The body portion is expanded and deployed to an outer side of a vehicle and covers a lower end portion of a windshield glass. The tether is provided inside the body portion, and connects an upper portion and a lower portion of the body portion so as to partition the body portion in the vehicle front-rear direction. Also, the tether has a through hole. The folded portion is formed by sewing the tether that is folded and overlapped.

Abstract: A self-locking seat belt retractor includes a blocking system for a seat belt winding shaft that is actuated in an at least vehicle-sensitive manner, in which, in the event of triggering, a sensor mass mounted in a vehicle-sensitive manner moves a locking lever with its engagement tip into a trigger position in engagement with the toothing of a control disk, as the result of which the control disk in its joint rotational motion with the belt winding shaft is stopped and the blocking system is activated. The sensor mass is situated in a support part on a contact surface, and when vehicle accelerations occur the sensor mass in the support part is movable on the contact surface by inertial control from a neutral position into the trigger position. The support part together with the sensor mass situated therein is situated in a housing that includes the control disk.

Abstract: A switching mechanism (100) in a force limiter mechanism of a seat belt retractor including: a locking mechanism including a locking element (68) that locks a torque tube (64) with respect to a spindle (61) so that the torque tube (64) rotates together with the spindle (61) and a spindle ring (70); a switch ring (120) rotatable to unlock the locking mechanism; and a switch housing (101) that stores the switch ring (120), a switch piston (115) adapted to activate the switch ring (120). A switching gas generator (116) generates gas for pushing out the switch piston (115) upon activation of the switching mechanism. The switch housing (101) of the switching mechanism (100) has a protrusion (110) that protrudes in an incoming direction of an operated part (122) at an abutment part hit by the switch ring (120) rotated by the switch piston (115) to control movement of the switch ring.

Abstract: A cover element (10) for an airbag unit having a stationary section, a first flap (14), and a second flap (20), wherein the first flap (14) is connected to the stationary section by at least one first hinge (31), and the second flap (20) by at least one second hinge (32). The two flaps (14, 20) are connected to each other by a tear connection (35). The first flap (14) has an outer area (16) and an emblem area (18), which protrude at least partially from the outer area (16) and extend into the second flap (20). In order that the emblem area (18) is not in the way of the expanding airbag even if the emblem area (18) is relatively large, the emblem area (18) is connected to the outer area (16) of the first flap (14) by a third hinge (33), so that the emblem area (18) can swing against the outer area (16) when the first flap (14) is open.

Abstract: A tensioner device for a seat belt with a tensioner block (1) cable passageway (2) in which there is formed a pressure chamber (3) and a pull cable (4) that can be connected to a compressed-gas powered piston and that can be connected to a seat belt component for providing a tensioning motion. The pull cable extends through the pressure chamber (3) and with a gas generator (5) that is attached to the tensioner block (1), wherein, when triggered, the gas exiting from the gas generator (5) flows through a feed section (6) of the tensioner block (1) into the pressure chamber (3), wherein a guide element (8) is formed in a transition area (7) of the feed section (6) in the pressure chamber (3) that extends via a bar (11) parallel relative to the pull cable (4) and thereby divides the transition area (7) into at least two openings (9).

Abstract: A buckle in a seatbelt apparatus includes a buckle stay (20), a buckle base (10) coupled to the buckle stay so as to be able to tilt in a first direction X and to pivot in a second direction Y, with respect to the buckle stay (20), and an elastic member that returns the buckle base (10) tilted in the first direction X and the buckle base (10) pivoted in the second direction Y to an original position. A support shaft (30) has a pair of arm portions (32) provided at an upper portion (31) of the support shaft (30) and extending in a lateral direction. Tip portions of the arm portions (32) are coupled into respective engagement grooves (16) formed in a pair of side plate portions (12) of the buckle base (10).

Abstract: An occupant restraining device capable of coping with a plurality of collision directions without additional airbags is provided. An occupant restraining device (100) is adapted to restrain an occupant P sitting in a vehicle seat (110), and the device includes a seatbelt (120) fixed to left and right sides of a seat cushion (116) of the seat to restrain the occupant's hips (P2), airbags (130a) and (130b) stored inside a seat back of the seat on the left and right sides thereof and inflated and deployed on the left and right sides of the occupant. Tensile fabric (140) is connected to each of the airbags and the seat cushion and applied with tension, when the airbags are inflated and deployed, so as to be extended between the airbags inflated and deployed and both side surfaces of the seat cushion.

Abstract: Disclosed are a passenger side airbag housing, a manufacturing method therefor, and a passenger side airbag for a vehicle. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for manufacturing a passenger side airbag housing comprises: a material preparation step of preparing a fiber reinforced composite material as a fabric form; and a press molding step of manufacturing a passenger side airbag housing by press-molding the fiber reinforced composite material.

Abstract: A belt retractor including a self-orienting vehicle-acceleration-sensitive sensor device (18) including a belt shaft, and a first blocking device blocking the belt shaft in the belt extraction direction, which is controllable by the sensor device (18). The sensor device (18) includes a sensor housing (1) pivotable about a pivot axis (S), which is fixable with respect to the frame using a second blocking device (17). A contact surface (5) for an inertial mass is provided in the sensor housing (1).

Abstract: A driver assistance module is designed to be fixed on an automobile steering wheel. The driver assistance module includes a first driver information device and an infrared radiation source arranged to illuminate the driver and forming part of a second information device.

Abstract: A gas generator includes at least one pyrotechnic substance, at least one subassembly formed at least of a first component and a second component, and at least one third component fixed to at least one of the first component and of the second component. The this component and one of the first component and of the second component each comprise an indexing interface arranged to temporarily block at least two degrees of freedom between the third component of the one of the first component and of the second component.

Abstract: A vehicular airbag device capable of improving reduction of an occupant obstruction value during a diagonal collision. A vehicular airbag device opens an airbag door on an instrument panel. The outer shape of the airbag when fully deployed and expanded is line-symmetrical with respect to a center line (a line X-X) of the opening in a vehicle left-right width direction, and a width dimension WB in the vehicle width direction at a position of a rear edge 2b of the instrument panel in the vehicle longitudinal direction is greater than a width dimension WC in the vehicle width direction at a position of a center Z1 of the opening in the vehicle longitudinal direction which is more forward in the vehicle longitudinal direction than the rear edge position of the instrument panel.

Abstract: An airbag having a front side (10) and a rear side (20) connected thereto, which airbag is made of an airbag material, which encloses a volume that is filled with a deployment gas when a gas generator or a pressurized gas source is activated, and having at least one limiting strap (30), which is connected to the front side (10) at a first fastening point (31), and to the rear side (20) at a second fastening point (32. At least one of the fastening points (31, 32) has a fastening seam (51, 51?, 52, 52?) having mutually opposing sections for fastening the limiting strap (30) to the airbag material, and wherein at least one load relief slot (60) at the fastening point (31, 32) between the sections of the fastening seam (51, 51?, 52, 52?).

Abstract: A vehicular airbag device capable of improving reduction of an occupant obstruction value during a diagonal collision. A vehicular airbag device opens an airbag door on an instrument panel 2 The outer shape of the airbag when fully deployed and expanded is line-symmetrical with respect to a center line (a line X-X) of the opening in a vehicle left-right width direction, and a width dimension WB in the vehicle width direction at a position of a rear edge 2b of the instrument panel in the vehicle longitudinal direction is greater than a width dimension WC in the vehicle width direction at a position of a center Z1 of the opening in the vehicle longitudinal direction which is more forward in the vehicle longitudinal direction than the rear edge position of the instrument panel.

Abstract: A steering-wheel core and a method for casting the same capable of eliminating the need to perform finishing processing after casting and decreasing a manufacturing cost even when the steering-wheel core is cast using a molten metal are provided. The method for casting a steering-wheel core (100) according to the present invention includes: providing a protruding portion (92) in a surface (91) of an inner surface of a casting die (90), with the surface defining a nut seat surface; and causing a molten metal to hit on the protruding portion (92) when the molten metal is flown into the casting die (90) such that a flowing direction of the molten metal flowing toward the surface (91 that defines the nut seat surface is changed.

Abstract: A vehicle radar system (3) including at least one transceiver arrangement (7) arranged to generate, transmit and receive reflected radar signals (4, 5) where the transmitted radar signals (4) have been reflected by an object (6 and 8). The radar system (3) is arranged to provide azimuth angle (?) and radial velocity (vr) for a plurality of measurement points (9) at such objects (6 and 8). The radar system (3) is arranged to calculate a difference between a minimum radial velocity (Vmin?, Vmin?) and a maximum radial velocity (Vmax?, Vmax?) for the measurement points (9) for a plurality of azimuth angle intervals, and to select those azimuth angle intervals (??A, ??B) where the difference exceeds a certain threshold.

Abstract: An airbag device 100 includes: an inflator 112 that is provided in a vehicle and capable of supplying gas; and an outer bag 114 that inflates, by using the gas, in a prescribed shape in front of an occupant 134 sitting in a seat 102 of the vehicle. The outer bag 114 includes an outside base fabric 122 forming an outer surface thereof, an opening part 126 provided in a prescribed area of the outside base fabric 122, and an inside base fabric 124 forming an inner peripheral surface thereof recessed in a concave shape from the opening part 126 and inflating so as to protrude partially from the opening part 126 to a side of the seat. In the airbag device 100, the inside base fabric 124 has lower tension than the outside base fabric 122 and restrains the occupant 134.

Abstract: A motor vehicle vision system (10) includes a pair of imaging devices (12a, 12b) forming a stereo imaging apparatus (11) and a data processing apparatus (14) for rectification of images captured by the stereo imaging apparatus (11), matching of rectified images, and to detect an object in the surrounding of the motor vehicle. The data processing device (14) performs, for image elements (43) of a rectified image from one imaging device, a search for a best-matching image element (44?) in the corresponding rectified image from the other imaging device. The search yielding vertical shift information from which a vertical shift from the image element (43) to the best-matching image element (44?) is derivable. The data processing device (14) calculates a pitch angle error and/or a roll angle error of or between the imaging devices (12a, 12b) from the vertical shift information.

Abstract: A vehicle radar system (3) and related method including at least one transceiver arrangement (7) arranged to generate and transmit radar signals (4), and to receive reflected radar signals (5). The radar signals form a plurality of sensing sectors or sensing bins (8a-8g), that together form a transceiver coverage (9), For each sensing bin (8a-8g) the radar system (3) is arranged to obtain a target angle (?) and a target range (r) to possible target objects (10a-10j). The radar system (3) is further arranged to determine an unoccupied domain border (11) and a corresponding unoccupied domain (12) for the radar transceiver coverage (9).

Abstract: A vehicle radar system (3) having at least one transceiver arrangement (7) arranged to generate, transmit and receive reflected radar signals. The transceiver arrangement (7) includes an ADC arrangement (10) that is arranged to output a digital IF signal (20) in a time domain to a DSP arrangement (12). A first DSP function (12a) is arranged to: identify and retain sample points of the digital IF signal (20) in a spectral domain with signal components that exceed a certain level threshold, such that an approximation signal (36) is formed in the time domain, identify possible sections (37) of the digital IF signal (20) in the time domain that exhibit interference exceeding an interference threshold, determine whether or not to replace such sections (37) with equivalent sections (38) of the approximation signal (36), and if applicable, replace such sections (37) with equivalent sections (38) of the approximation signal (36).