Easy ejector seat with skeletal crash safety beam

• US 8,136,835 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2010
• Issued: 03/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cozy, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Cozy, Inc.
• Inventors: Rajasingham, Arjuna Indraeswaran
• Primary Examiner(s): Fleming, Faye M.
• Application Number:
  US12/924,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20110031055A1
• Time in Patent Office: 543 Days
• Field of Search: 280/730.2, 280/743.1, 280/729, 280/736, 180/271, 180/274
• US Class Current: 280/736
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/4235 transversal
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/42736 of the whole seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/64 Back-rests or cushions B60N2/2222 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/665 using inflatable bladders
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/68 Seat frames
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/7094 Upholstery springs
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0039 Body parts of the occupant or pedestrian affected by the accident
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/18 the inflatable member formed as a belt or harness or combined with a belt or harness arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 21/157 for side impacts

Abstract

An arrangement in passenger vehicles, that diverts the impact energy in impacts away from the passengers to the remaining mass of the vehicle thereby protecting the passengers, and in the same arrangement provides utilitarian access to the vehicle, such utilitarian access making it possible to both install multi-element contoured surround seats for passengers and the driver, and also safety devices and arrangements for head-on collision protection that protect the passenger. An indo-skeletal structural arrangement proposed for the vehicle, provides further benefits by targeting the strength of the vehicle to protect passengers while minimizing other massive elements in the vehicle.

Claims

1. An airbag prefilled with at least a predetermined volume of air with porous filling materials, and comprising vents for exhaust at a metered rate during impact, said porous filling materials and vents, enabling adjustment of the compression characteristics of the airbag under impact, thereby providing protection of an occupant in a vehicle under impact conditions.

2. An airbag as in claim 1, wherein said airbag acts as a sacrificial chamber to release airflow following commencement of compression of said airbag to aircushions that are enabled to protect an occupant during impact.

3. An airbag as in claim 2, deployed with said airbag deployed such that its compression is enabled by contact with parts of the occupant with high inertial mass such that subsequent inflation of the aircushions protect high priority anatomical regions of the occupant.

4. An airbag as in claim 3, wherein the torso of the occupant compresses the airbag and said at least one aircushions protect one or both of the head and neck.

5. A vehicle with side impact protection for occupants provided with an occupant support supported by cylindrical slides (10D1 to 10D5) comprising a first set of slides concentric with a second set of slides, wherein the egress and ingress is enabled by the activation the first set of slides and impact protection for motion into the vehicle for the occupant is enabled with the second set of slides.

6. A vehicle with side impact protection as in claim 5, wherein the first set of slides are enabled for motion with a motorized threaded shaft concentric to the cylindrical slides.

7. A vehicle with side impact protection as in claim 5, wherein the motion of the second set of slides move above structural elements of the vehicle in the center of the vehicle thereby enabling greater motion of the near side occupant during a side impact to the vehicle.