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Inflatable vehicle occupant positioning system

  • US 10,232,814 B2
  • Filed: 02/23/2017
  • Issued: 03/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2017
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A vehicle occupant positioning system comprising at least one inflatable bladder mounted in a vehicle seat and arranged so that inflating the at least one inflatable bladder responsive to a determination that a portion of a body of a vehicle occupant lies outside an optimal zone of deployment for an associated airbag causes a portion of the vehicle seat to distend outwardly so as to urge the portion of the occupant'"'"'s body back into the optimal zone of deployment for the associated airbag, and wherein the at least one inflatable bladder includes at least one first bladder and at least one second bladder, the at least one first bladder arranged to be inflatable so as to move a portion of the seat to lift a first upper thigh of a body of a vehicle seat occupant, the at least one second bladder arranged to be inflatable so as to move a portion of the seat to lift a second upper thigh of the body, the at least one first bladder being inflatable to lift the first upper thigh to a level above the second upper thigh when the at least one second bladder is uninflated, the at least one second bladder being inflatable lift the second upper thigh to a level above the first upper thigh when the at least one first bladder is uninflated.

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