During a rollover situation there are possibilities of passenger head hitting the roof of the vehicle causing injury depending upon the passenger's height, head room, vertical and angular momentum where only side and curtain airbags cannot provide a complete head and neck protection. Comprehensive Roof Airbags (CRA) are integrated or installed internally and externally between, through and across the top of windshield, top of the roll over protection bars, head liner, roof rails, top of A, B and C pillars particularly works in roll over situation and deployed to cover the area with airbags on either one or more or combinations of inside headliner, outside rooftop and over the top of occupants head according to configurations and type of the vehicles thereby forming a protective layer to prevent or reduce the severity of head hitting the roof top in closed top vehicles and head hitting the road surface and debris in case open top vehicle ultimately to protect the passengers all to avoid or mitigate the head, neck and spine injury.


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    Title :

    COMPREHENSIVE ROOF AIRBAGS FOR OPENTOP, CONVERTIBLE AND CLOSED TOP VEHICLES


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    Publication date :

    2019-02-07


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR / G01C Messen von Entfernungen, Höhen, Neigungen oder Richtungen , MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS / G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung



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