PASSENGER-SHIFT AIRBAG APPARATUS, SIDE AIRBAG SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SIDE AIRBAG SYSTEM
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1. A passenger-shift airbag apparatus, comprising:
- an inflator installed at a predetermined position in a seat back of a vehicle; and
a passenger-shift airbag cushion fluid-connected to the inflator directly or by a gas supply tube, the passenger-shift airbag cushion being located in the seat back adjacent to a lateral side of the seatback, so that when the passenger-shift airbag cushion is inflated by gas supplied from the inflator, the passenger-shift airbag cushion shifts the passenger towards an inside of the vehicle.
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Abstract
A passenger-shift airbag apparatus may include an inflator installed at a predetermined position in a seat back of a vehicle; and a passenger-shift airbag cushion fluid-connected to the inflator directly or by a gas supply tube, the passenger-shift airbag cushion being located in the seat back adjacent to a lateral side of the seatback, so that when the passenger-shift airbag cushion is inflated by gas supplied from the inflator, the passenger-shift airbag cushion shifts the passenger towards an inside of the vehicle.
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1. A passenger-shift airbag apparatus, comprising:
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an inflator installed at a predetermined position in a seat back of a vehicle; and a passenger-shift airbag cushion fluid-connected to the inflator directly or by a gas supply tube, the passenger-shift airbag cushion being located in the seat back adjacent to a lateral side of the seatback, so that when the passenger-shift airbag cushion is inflated by gas supplied from the inflator, the passenger-shift airbag cushion shifts the passenger towards an inside of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method of controlling the side airbag system according to claim 5, comprising the steps of:
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receiving pre-crash sensing information from the vehicle-operation-condition sensing module and the pre-crash sensor; determining whether the another vehicle predicted to cause the side collision is approaching the vehicle at a predetermined speed or more from a predetermined direction using the pre-crash sensing information; determining whether there is a 100% probability that the another vehicle predicted to cause the side collision collides with the vehicle at a speed higher than a reference speed; and deploying the passenger-shift airbag apparatus at a point of time earlier than a point of time of the collision when it is determined that the probability of the side collision is 100%. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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