Abstract: A vehicle seat has a seatback and a seat bottom defining an occupant-seating area. An inflatable device is fixed to the seatback and is inflatable from the seatback vehicle-forward along the occupant-seating area from an uninflated position to an inflated position. The inflatable device has an inflation chamber. The inflatable device is a thermoplastic elastomer. The vehicle includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to: detect a removeable child-restraint system on the occupant-seating area; and based on the detection of the removeable child-restraint system on the occupant-seating area, inflate the inflatable device in response to detection of certain vehicle impacts.

Abstract: A rear suspension structure includes left and right trailing arms, left and right hub carriers, and a lateral beam. Each hub carrier includes a front arm portion extending in a direction inward in the vehicle width direction and frontward of an axis of the rear wheels, and a rear arm portion extending rearward of the front arm portion. Each trailing arm has a rear end portion coupled to the hub carrier or the lateral beam via a first coupling portion that is a bushing. The lateral beam includes a left beam extending inward in the vehicle width direction from the rear arm portion disposed on a left side of the vehicle, a right beam extending inward in the vehicle width direction from the rear arm portion disposed on a right side of the vehicle, and left and right second coupling portions displaceably coupling the left beam and the right beam.

Abstract: An occupant protection device protects an occupant seated on a seat, in which an airbag is held in a holding body disposed in a periphery of a hip portion of the occupant. The airbag has a bag main body, and a conduit portion that causes an inflating gas discharged from an inflator to flow into the bag main body. The bag main body is held in the holding body as a completely folded body, folded using a front-rear reduction folding such that a width dimension in a front-rear direction is reduced from a preliminary folded bag. The completely folded body is formed by a lower side rolled region, formed by a lower side region of the preliminary folded bag being wound from a lower edge side, being stacked on an upper side rolled region, formed by an upper side region of the preliminary folded bag.

Abstract: An anti-rollover system and method for mitigating vehicle rollover. The system having a plurality of anti-rollover devices positioned around the vehicle chassis and being operable to calculate the likelihood of a vehicle rollover and determine the attitude of rollover there by actuating the anti-rollover device to counter roll thereby preventing a rollover collision.

Abstract: An airbag venting device (10) comprises a housing (24) which includes a first flow orifice (18) facing away from the airbag (12) and a second flow orifice (20) facing the airbag (12). The housing (24) has an axial total length (26), the first flow orifice (18) has a first axial opening length (34) and the second flow orifice (20) has a second axial opening length (34). An adjustable closure element (22) assigned to the housing (24), in an open position, releases at least one of the two flow orifices (18, 20). An actuator device (30) interacts with the closure element (22) to release and/or to close the flow orifice (18, 20), and, in doing so, the axial total length (26) of the housing (24) is less than 3 times the length of the longer axial opening length (34) of the two flow orifices (18, 20).

Abstract: A control device for a gas generator for controlling a volumetric flow of a fluid, which is stored under pressure, for filling an airbag of a motor vehicle, with a valve arrangement. To reduce a response time of a main valve piston, the valve arrangement has a means for controlling a fluid pressure in a control chamber, wherein the means for controlling a fluid pressure is configured to bring or hold the fluid pressure in the control chamber to/at a pressure which lies in a predefined tolerance range around an activation pressure of the main valve piston.

Abstract: A system that a crossbar that is pivotally connected to a first structure and is pivotally connected to a second structure. The system also includes a first actuator that is located near the first structure and is connected to the crossbar. The system also includes a second actuator that is located near the second structure and is connected to the crossbar.

Abstract: A front suspension device comprises a suspension arm, one end of which has a front-wheel support portion to support a front wheel of a vehicle and the other end of which is positioned on an inward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the front-wheel support portion and has a vehicle-body attachment portion to be attached to a vehicle-body member of the vehicle and a damper supported at a damper support portion which is provided at a portion of the suspension arm which is positioned in the vicinity of the front-wheel support portion at a lower portion thereof and connected to the vehicle-body member at an upper portion thereof. The damper support portion of the suspension arm has a breakage ease portion to cause breakage of the suspension arm.

Abstract: A trailer chassis having multiple wheels attached to one or more axels and a bed area. A main gate movably attached to the chassis at the rear edge portion of the bed area and being movable between elevated and lowered positions The main gate having upper and lower edge portions and left and right gate side edges. A cutout or open portion of the main gate providing a gap or recess or opening for enabling carriage of elongated articles above the load carrying area that are longer than the bed length. An auxiliary gate that is smaller than the main gate, the auxiliary gate being movable between an auxiliary gate closed position that covers the gap or recess or opening and an auxiliary gate open position that enables articles to occupy the gap or recess or opening.

Abstract: A recreational vehicle includes a frame, left and right air suspensions, a front jack, a tilt sensor configured to measure lateral and longitudinal tilt data associated with the frame, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive the lateral and longitudinal tilt data to thereby level the frame laterally via operation of the left and right air suspensions and level the frame longitudinally via operation of the left and right air suspensions and the front jack. Methods for performing a leveling operation include utilizing left and right air suspensions of the recreational vehicle in combination with operating a front jack of the recreational vehicle until the recreational vehicle is level along lateral and longitudinal axes.

Abstract: A three-wheeled electric vehicle in accordance with EU vehicle classification L2e-U, which has two electric-motor-driven rear wheels, each of which is driven by one wheel-hub motor. A hydraulically actuatable rear-wheel disc-brake system is mounted on each rear wheel which brake system is also fitted with an integrated electromechanical parking brake, the activation of which shifts each rear wheel into a parking-brake mode in which wheel rotation is prevented. In a rear portion, the vehicle body forms a support structure on which an optionally present, exchangeable transport container can be supported and secured with the aid of a quick-release fastening system. The quick-release fastening system includes one or more connection device(s), wherein each connection device includes a bar that protrudes from a bottom wall of the transport container; and a locking device, which is permanently attached to the support structure, is fitted with a movable blocking element.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a front differential, a pair of constant-velocity joints, and a steering mechanism. The steering mechanism includes a pitman arm, a pair of tie rods, a pair of first link arms each connecting the pitman arm with a corresponding one of the pair of tie rods, and a pair of second link arms each connecting a corresponding one of the pair of first link arms with a body frame. In a plan view, at least a portion of each constant-velocity joint is located between first and second straight lines extending in a fore-aft direction and through first and second connectors extending between the tie rods and the first link arms. The first connector, the second connector, and at least a portion of each constant-velocity joint are located between third and fourth straight lines extending between the first and second link arms.

Abstract: State of the art track width adjustment mechanism fail to support track width adjustment while vehicle is in motion. They also require manual intervention, which causes inconvenience. The disclosure herein generally relates to wheel track adjustment, and, more particularly, to a changeable wheel track mechanism for track width adjustment (referred to as TWA mechanism). The TWA mechanism includes a steer and drive unit, a plurality of links, and a sliding unit. The TWA mechanism allows movement of a wheel in inward and outward directions, causing the track width adjustment. The track width is achieved by changing the wheel position to be at a wider position, or a narrower position, or any intermediate position. The TWA mechanism may be associated with any vehicle for which the track width adjustment is to be achieved.

Abstract: A position adjusting system for use in a vehicle includes a seat for supporting a rider, a rear wheel and a steerable front wheel, a steering arrangement including a handle bar for allowing the rider to control the steerable wheel, and a hub for interconnecting the components of the wheeled vehicle. The steerable wheel is steerable about at least two axes. The position adjusting system includes an adjustable seat support movably connected to the hub, an adjustable handle bar support movably connected to the hub, and a releasable position locking system configured to lock the position of the components of the vehicle relative to the hub. The hub includes a first portion and second portion, wherein the first and second portions are moveably connected to one another, such as by pivoting, sliding, or a combination of pivoting and sliding.

Abstract: A rear suspension structure includes a hub carrier having a wheel support portion by which a rear wheel is rotatably supported, the hub carrier includes a front arm portion that extends in a vehicle inner direction and toward the vehicle front side beyond an axle of the rear wheel and a rear arm portion that extends toward the vehicle rear side, the rear arm portion is coupled to a lateral beam extending in a vehicle width direction, on the vehicle rear side of the axle, a vehicle rear side end portion of a trailing arm extending in a vehicle front-rear direction is coupled to the lateral beam, and the front arm portion is coupled to a front arm attachment portion provided in the trailing arm.

Abstract: A steering system includes a base body having a contact surface on a base body side and a bearing area for pivotable suspension of a first distal end and a retaining element having a contact surface on a retaining side and a fastening section for fastening a spring element, and that is arranged at an end of the base body and fixed to the base body by an adhesive between the contact surfaces, and/or wherein an axle body with a contact surface on the axle side, wherein the base body is fixed to the axle body by an adhesive introduced between the contact surfaces, wherein the retaining element is fixed to the axle body by an adhesive introduced between the contact surface on the axle side and the contact surface on the retaining side.

Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle may include a crash device that has at least two components that have mutually facing surfaces. The at least two components may be connected to each other by means of a shear element that is arranged in an opening passing at least partially through the components such that the shear element is broken in two if the components move relative to each other. To improve the predetermined breaking connection, the opening may have, in at least one edge region bounding one of the mutually facing surfaces, a widened portion that extends at least over a partial circumferential region and is open towards the respective other surface.

Abstract: A steering column sleeve includes two elements made up of an outer tube and an inner tube, and a system for adjusting a resistive force against a relative translational movement between the elements. A friction pad is supported by a first of the elements, and a clamping surface is rigidly connected to a second of the elements, wherein the friction pad is configured to contact and bear on the clamping surface, and an adjustment mechanism. The adjusting mechanism includes a cam bearing on a support member to generate a variation in pressure of the friction pad on the clamping surface parallel to a reference axis that is fixed relative to the first element, between a use position and an adjustment position. The adjustment mechanism of the adjustment system is configured to generate a relative rotational movement between the cam and the support member about the reference axis.

Abstract: A vehicle including a single front wheel arranged on a center line extending in a front-rear direction, two rear wheels arranged on a left side and a right side of the center line, a steering part arranged above the front wheel, a placement part on which feet of an occupant are placed, a first member rotatably supporting the front wheel and supporting the front wheel in a steerable manner by the steering part, a second member arranged behind the first member to rotatably support the two rear wheels, and a connecting part connecting the first member and the second member swingably in a left-right direction about an axial line extending in the front-rear direction. The placement part is supported by the second member.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a bulkhead. The vehicle includes a base supported by the bulkhead and inflatable from a stowed position away from the bulkhead to a deployed position. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the base and inflatable away from the bulkhead to a deployed position.