A vehicle seat restraint system includes a vehicle seat of a vehicle. The vehicle seat includes a leg-rest supporting lower legs and feet of an occupant of the vehicle seat. An in-vehicle occupant detection system identifies positions of the lower legs and the feet of the occupant. A restraint actuator is connected to the vehicle seat. A safety restraint element is extended by actuation of the restraint actuator from a stowed position proximate to the leg-rest into an engaged position wherein the safety restraint element contacts and restrains the lower legs and the feet of the occupant against the leg-rest, mitigating against occupant knee hyperextension due to leg straightening at an occupant knee joint.
Restraint system to prevent knee hyperextension during vehicle crashes
14.05.2024
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR |
Restraint system for preventing knee hyperextension during vehicle collision
Europäisches Patentamt | 2024
|Using Human Body Models to Assess Knee Ligament Injury in Knee Hyperextension
SAE Technical Papers | 2018
|Safety restraint usage in fatal motor vehicle crashes
Elsevier | 1991
|Safety restraint usage in fatal motor vehicle crashes
Online Contents | 1993
|Restraint robustness in frontal crashes
Kraftfahrwesen | 2007
|