A system and method are provided for controlling an interior configuration of a vehicle following a collision. Sensor data that includes, or is derived from data that includes, data collected by one or more sensors is received, and a vehicle accident condition indicative of an accident having occurred is detected by processing the sensor data. After detecting the vehicle accident condition, an actuator component is caused to prevent a passenger from adjusting an interior vehicle component outside a predetermined range of physical configurations, while allowing the passenger to adjust the interior vehicle component within the predetermined range of physical configurations.

The present invention is a vehicle control device including a restriction unit configured to restrict a change in an orientation of a vehicle seat, a vehicle information recognition unit configured to recognize information of a traveling environment of a vehicle, a risk evaluation unit configured to evaluate a risk of a collision which may occur in the vehicle on the basis of the traveling environment recognized by the vehicle information recognition unit, and a control unit configured to control the restriction unit and restrict the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat on the basis of a level of the risk of the collision evaluated by the risk evaluation unit.

A vehicle provided with a vehicle interior including an interior surface and at least one interior object provided for arrangement and fixation in the vehicle interior, an electronic detection device is provided, which is adapted to detect a position of the interior object on the interior surface. The at least one interior object includes at least one drive device for a non-mechanically guided displacement of the interior object on the interior surface of the vehicle, and the electronic detection device adapted to detect the reaching of a specified fixing position on the interior surface by the interior object.

A vehicle occupant re-straining device, comprising an air bag inflated and deployed on both sides of a vehicle occupant; tension cloth housed so as to extend from the inside of the seat back of a seat into a seat cushion; an angle detection means for detecting the reclining angle of the seat back; and an inner pressure control means for controlling, depending on the reclining angle, pressure in the air bag at the time of inflation and deployment thereof, wherein the tension cloth is deployed on the sides of the seat when the surface material of the seat is broken open by the inflation and deployment of the air bag, thereby holding the surfaces of the air bag, which are located on the opposite sides of the vehicle occupant, and wherein the inner pressure control means reduces pressure in the air bag.

Provided is a vehicle seat that is rotatable relative to a vehicle body and can prevent a collision between an object located around a seat body and an occupant by airbags. A vehicle seat includes: a seat body (6) supported by a vehicle body (2b) so as to be rotatable around a substantially vertical axis; a pair of airbags (17) provided on either lateral side edge of the seat body and configured to deploy to respective lateral sides of an occupant seated on the seat body; a rotation angle detecting device (15) provided on the seat body and configured to detect a rotation angle of the seat body relative to the vehicle body; and a control device (22) configured to control deploying operation of the respective airbags independently of each other. The deploying operation includes a deploying amount and/or a deploying timing. The control device is configured to individually control the deploying operation of the pair of airbags according to the rotation angle detected by the rotation angle detecting device.

In a vehicle, an occupant is suitably protected even when the occupant is seated in the vehicle with the seat inclined and facing a direction different from the advancing direction of the vehicle. A system for protecting an occupant boarding on a seat in a vehicle, where a seat back of the seat is configured to be inclinable with respect to a seat cushion of the seat. The system includes an acquiring unit that acquires environment information related to the vehicle in traveling or the surrounding environment thereof; and a control unit that, when the seat is facing a direction different from an advancing direction of the vehicle and the seat back is in an inclined state with respect to the seat cushion by greater than or equal to a predetermined angle, executes a support control to support the occupant in the seat to resist an inertial force that is assumed to act on the occupant boarding on the seat, based on the environment information.

A vehicle occupant protection device includes a vehicle seat, a steering wheel, a steering moving mechanism, and a control unit. The vehicle seat includes a seat back and a headrest, the vehicle seat being configured to turn between a position where the vehicle seat is directed toward a vehicle front side and a position where the vehicle seat is directed toward a vehicle rear side. The steering wheel is provided ahead of the vehicle seat in a vehicle front-rear direction. The steering moving mechanism is configured to change a position of the steering wheel. The control unit is configured to move the steering wheel to a support position where the seat back and the headrest are supported by the steering wheel from the vehicle front side, by the steering moving mechanism, when the vehicle seat is directed toward the vehicle rear side.

One general aspect includes a system to establish a deployment force for an airbag of a vehicle, the system includes: a memory configured to include one or more executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions, where the executable instructions enable the processor to carry out the following steps: monitoring a head position of a vehicle occupant; based on the monitored head position, calculating a distance of a body part of a vehicle operator relative to a portion of an interior cabin of the vehicle; and based on the distance of the body part, establishing the deployment force for the airbag.

A method includes sensing when a seat is at a first location in a vehicle, and controlling an occupant restraint system of the vehicle in a first manner based on the seat being at the first location in the vehicle. The method further includes sensing when the seat is at a second location in the vehicle, and controlling the occupant restraint system of the vehicle in a second manner based on the seat being at the second location in the vehicle. A system receives data indicating a location of seats in a vehicle and operates an occupant restraint system for the seats using a first set of parameters when the data indicates that a first seat is at a first location, and operates the occupant restraint system for the first seat using a second set of parameters when the data indicates that the first seat is at a second location.

A vehicle includes a seat movable to a forward-facing position and a rearward-facing position. The vehicle includes a track elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The vehicle includes an airbag assembly movable along the track. The vehicle includes a computer having a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to move the airbag assembly along the track to a first position in response to identifying the seat is in the forward-facing position and to a second position in response to identifying the seat is in the rearward-facing position, the first position different than the second position relative to the seat.