Patents Assigned to Autoliv Development AS
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Publication number: 20130300092Abstract: A frontal center curtain airbag for a vehicle may include a pair of housing frames spaced from each other in forward and rearward directions to cross the vehicle in a widthwise direction of the vehicle, a plurality of connecting frames connecting upper ends and opposite side ends of the spaced housing frames in forward and rearward directions to form an installation space together with the housing frames, an airbag cushion installed in the installation space and surrounded by the housing frames and the connecting frames, and an airbag door coupled to lower ends of the housing frames and the connecting frames to close a lower end of the installation space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Autoliv Development AB, Kia Motors Corp.Inventors: Jun Yeol Choi, Wan Dong Yoo, Sung Woo Lee
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Patent number: 8579223Abstract: A self-locking belt retractor for motor vehicles with a vehicle-sensitive and a belt-webbing-sensitive control system for the blocking arrangement of the belt retractor, is characterized in that for the formation of its inertia, an inertial mass is swivellably mounted on a control disk, wherein the inertial mass can be deflected into a blocking position for the control disc. Additionally, a locking lever mounted on the control disc is provided for the cutoff of a vehicle sensor, and by way of a switching process in its cutoff position, the locking lever cuts off the vehicle sensor and secures the inertial mass in a disabling position, the disabling position being different than the blocking position.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventor: Guillem Aranda
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Patent number: 8582818Abstract: A method of automatically detecting objects in front of a motor vehicle comprises the steps of pre-storing template objects representing possible objects in front of the motor vehicle, detecting images from a region in front of the vehicle by a vehicle mounted imaging means, generating a processed image containing disparity or vehicle-to-scene distance information from the detected images, comparing the pre-stored template objects with corresponding regions-of-interest of the processed image, and generating a match result relating to the match between the processed image and the template objects. Each of the pre-stored template objects is a flat two-dimensional multi-pixel area of predetermined shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Per Jonas Hammarström, Ognjan Hedberg
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Publication number: 20130292926Abstract: A cover used for an airbag device capable of accurately and easily adjusting a deployment direction of an airbag during a side collision according to a deployment position. The cover includes a protecting portion formed along a rolled airbag, and a plurality of attachment portions formed so as to be attached to a body of a vehicle. The protecting portion includes a slit capable of controlling the deployment direction of the airbag by changing a position through which the tab passes toward the body of the vehicle in a rolling direction of the airbag.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Minhun Kim, Jinhua Piao, Atsushi Yamada
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Patent number: 8573645Abstract: A gas generator includes an initiator having a case, two electrodes and a cap having a wall delimiting an aperture for insertion of the case, a part delimiting an aperture for access to the electrodes and a retaining part made of plastic material overmolded into the aperture between the initiator, the cap and the part. The wall includes, near the aperture and the protrusion retaining the cap, a second protrusion for supporting the mold in a support direction having a component extending from the bottom toward the aperture, the second protrusion having an outer edge at least partially not covered by the part for use as a support surface in said support direction for a mold to be used for overmolding.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Wilfried Lefevre, Thierry Maisonnette, Marie-Hélène Bischoff-Barre, Benoit Sable, Gérald Prima, Christophe Gatoux
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Patent number: 8573636Abstract: A side airbag unit for mounting on or in the backrest of a vehicle seat includes an airbag skin enclosing a gas chamber, and an inflator for filling of said gas chamber. The airbag skin exhibits a main section which serves for protection of the vehicle occupant when the side airbag is expanded and which in the resting state of the side airbag is present as a package, wherein the package is at least partly rolled. In order to provide a side airbag unit of low weight with its airbag skin nevertheless showing a controlled and reproducible expansion behavior, the airbag skin further comprises at least one auxiliary section which in the resting state encompasses the main section in two layers at least in sections, wherein an additional area of the gas chamber is present between the two layers of the auxiliary section at least in the resting state.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventor: Mats Berntsson
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Patent number: 8573648Abstract: An apparatus for rotating a webbing guide of a seat belt for a vehicle may include a drive unit for moving a cable connected at one end thereof by controlling driving of a motor in response to an actuating signal or a stop signal, the webbing guide connected to the other end of the cable, and hingedly rotated to a first direction of a vehicular body as the cable moves in a second direction, and a return unit provided on the webbing guide, and providing an elastic force to the webbing guide so that the webbing guide hingedly rotated to the first direction of the vehicular body returns to the second direction of the vehicular body when the motor stops driving.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Autoliv Development ABInventors: Woo Chul Park, Hyun Jeong You, Dong Sub Lee
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Publication number: 20130277952Abstract: An airbag cover for a vehicle that includes an airbag cover body that has a tear line to allow the airbag cover body to be torn off when an airbag cushion is deployed, and a bezel ring coupled to the airbag cover body. The airbag cover includes a plurality of separating protrusions having first and second separating protrusions that are formed on the bezel ring to be spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the bezel ring and to be adjacent to each other. In addition, the separating protrusions have third and fourth separating protrusions adjacent to each other at a position facing the first and second separating protrusions. The separating protrusions include first to fourth separating protrusion insertion apertures that are formed within the airbag cover body to allow the first to fourth separating protrusions to be inserted therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Doo Seob Jung, Jae Hyung Oh, Sang Gyu Yoon
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Publication number: 20130277483Abstract: A seat belt retractor with a switchable load limiting device for a safety belt of a motor vehicle with a belt shaft and a locking device which upon actuation locks the belt shaft in the belt extraction direction. The load limiting device is located in the force flow between the belt shaft and the locking device between the load limiting levels. A switching device is used for switching the load limiting device. The switching device includes a gas generator for releasing a gas flow into a pressure chamber and an expandable hollow pot which can be driven by the gas flow. The expandable hollow pot is attached to the gas generator in a gas-proof manner and forms the pressure chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2011Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Günter Clute, Adrian Bud, Per Axblom, Lena Sandelius
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Patent number: 8562016Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the present invention, an airbag capable of maintaining a stable attachment to a vehicle for a long period and a method of manufacturing the airbag are provided. The curtain airbag device comprises an airbag body accommodated to a window upper edge of a vehicle for expanding and inflating toward inside of the vehicle in a compressed state when it is deployed. A plurality of strip-shaped coupling members are coupled with the airbag body. A plurality of brackets are coupled with the airbag body for fixing the airbag body to the vehicle. Each bracket has a coupling hole through which each strip-shaped coupling member is inserted and a fixing hole into which a tightening member is inserted. The airbag body is coupled with the brackets by the strip-shaped coupling members as well as the airbag body is fixed to the vehicle through the brackets by the tightening members.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2008Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Makoto Higano, Takayoshi Saegusa
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Publication number: 20130270805Abstract: A curtain airbag for a vehicle includes a main chamber shaped in such a way that, in a position being mounted on the vehicle, in the inflated state the main chamber covers an inner side structure of the vehicle. The curtain airbag further includes an additional chamber which, in the mounting position, is located on 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Dion Kruse, Jan Mazanek
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Patent number: 8558679Abstract: A method of analyzing the surroundings of a vehicle, comprising the steps of: gathering data regarding objects in the vicinity of the vehicle; analyzing the data to determine regions of empty space around the vehicle; creating one or more signatures representing at least some of the regions of empty space; and storing the signatures for later retrieval.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Jonas Bärgman, Jan-Erik Källhammer, Sven Rönnbäck, Kalevi Hyypää, Tomas Bergiund, Håkan Fredriksson
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Patent number: 8550492Abstract: Provided is a side airbag module, including (i) a gas generating means generating a hot and high-pressure gas and exhausting the gas through an outlet when a car collision occur, (ii) a side airbag cushion that is configured to be filled with the exhausted gas and is inflated from back to front at a side of a passenger, and (iii) a baffle which includes a first vent hole and is formed inside the side airbag cushion to divide the inner space of the side airbag cushion into an inner chamber and an outer chamber, wherein a second vent hole is formed in a portion of the side airbag cushion, the portion corresponding to the outer chamber, and the inner chamber is inflated first and the outer chamber is inflated later as the side airbag cushion is inflated from back to front at a side of the passenger.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventor: Tae-Ik Gwon
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Patent number: 8544882Abstract: A front passenger airbag (5) is described for arrangement in the instrument panel (20) of a motor vehicle. It has an airbag envelope (10) having an impact area (11) and lateral surfaces extending from the impact area (11). In order to use small gas generators and to reduce the danger for a passenger in a non-standard seating position, the impact area (11) is nearly exclusively allocated to the front passenger's (I) head or head and shoulder area, the impact area (11) having a concave shape when the airbag envelope (10) is fully expanded and free of external forces, such that a left and right section of the impact area (11) respectively extend farther into the interior of the motor vehicle than a central section.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Alexander Gulde, Roland Peiz, Armin Kränzle, Peter Gerisch, Reinhard Böswirth, Stefan Taubert, Marc Schock, Jens Hoffmann, Anna Gawlowska, Michal Skibinski, Marcin Wiaderny, Marek Sofinski
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Publication number: 20130233083Abstract: A system for determining vibration characteristics of a motor vehicle having a sensing arrangement (8) adapted to sense vibrations of the vehicle or a vehicle part, and an electronic processing means (11) adapted to apply an algorithm (12) for evaluating signals from the sensing arrangement (8) and for determining vibration characteristics based on the evaluation. The algorithm (12) includes at least one support vector machine SVM (13a . . . 13g) adapted to output a probability that the current vibration characteristic belongs to a particular pre-set type of vibration characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Herbert Hofelsauer, Richard Baur, Stefano Marzani, Francesco Lolli
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Patent number: 8532881Abstract: A connecting device arranged in a motor vehicle releasably connects a structural member of the vehicle to the vehicle chassis and includes a bolt joint system. The connecting device further includes a pyrotechnical charge and an igniter. The igniter detonates the pyrotechnical charge upon receipt of an ignition signal. The pyrotechnical charge is located near the bolt joint system such that, upon detonation, it destroys the connecting function of the bolt joint system and thereby releases the structural member from the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Martin Östling, Mikael Fermer, Henrik Ljungqvist, Henrik Ebbinger, Henrik Olsson
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Patent number: 8532882Abstract: An occupant restraint device controller, including an electronic circuit substrate incorporating therein a control circuit that determines whether or not a vehicle has collided based on a detection output of a sensor detecting acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and outputs a control signal for activating an occupant restraint tool. The electronic circuit substrate is accommodated inside a resin case provided with a structure for leading out a ground electrode from the inside to the outside of the resin case. The structure for leading out a ground electrode is configured such that a fixing leg, for fixing the electronic circuit substrate, is provided inside the case.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventor: Kentaro Akiyama
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Patent number: 8528173Abstract: A quick-action closure for the end fitting of a safety belt, whereby the quick-action closure includes an insertion tongue which can be inserted into a closure housing and which can be locked therein by means of a locking element disposed in a mobile manner between a locking position and a release position, and whereby the locking element can be transferred from its locking position into its release position by means of an actuating element which can be inserted into the closure housing. A safety element (21) is disposed in the closure housing (11) mounted at its center of gravity (35) rotatable between a safety position and a rest position, the safety element in its safety position fixing the locking element (20) in its locking position and, in its rest position, releasing the locking element (20), whereby the safety element (21) is held in its safety position by the action of a spring (25).Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Jonas Sterner, Gôran Carlsson, Robert Svensson
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Patent number: 8529398Abstract: A load limiting mechanism for a motor vehicle, comprising at least two parts (1, 2, 10, 12, 16, 20, 21, 46, 22, 40) controlled relative to one another with a frequency controlled oscillating movement. The parts (1, 2, 10, 12, 16, 20, 21, 46, 22, 40) moving relative to one another comprise interlocking gears (3, 4, 13, 15, 24, 25, 26, 27) and the frequency controlled oscillating movement results thereby that at least one of the parts (1, 10, 21, 22) compared to the other part (2, 12, 16, 20, 40, 46) executes a wavelike oscillating feed motion, in which the gears (3, 4, 13, 15, 24, 25, 26, 27) alternately become engaged and disengaged thereby dissipating energy.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventor: Ronald Jabusch
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Patent number: 8525728Abstract: A system for detecting objects in the vicinity of a vehicle, comprising: a sensor for gathering data relating to objects in the vicinity of the vehicle; and a processor operable to: detect objects, from the sensor data, based on one or more detection criteria, the detection being regulated by one or more detection parameters; analyze the detected objects; and in response to the number of detected objects, vary one or more of the detection parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Astrid Lundmark, Mattias Hanqvist
