A vehicle occupant restraint device for the protection of a vehicle occupant in a vehicle seat comprises plural restraining elements and a controller. The controller differentiates between a first situation in which the vehicle seat is in a position within the range of a standard position, and a second situation in which the vehicle seat with the vehicle occupant is in a position beyond the standard position. When the first situation is given, the controller activates a tensioning unit for tensioning a seat belt of the second restraining element and an airbag of the first restraining element. When the second situation is given, a third restraining element integrated in the vehicle seat and/or operatively connected with the vehicle seat can be activated and/or connected by the controller so that the vehicle seat is moved initially via the third restraining element to a position within the range of the standard position.

A vehicle occupant posture detection (OPD) system, including: a measuring device coupled to a seat back of a seat of a vehicle and adapted to determine an angle (α) between a Z-axis and a torso line of an occupant seated in the seat by measuring an angle of the seat back; a measuring device coupled to a seat bottom of the seat of the vehicle and adapted to determine an angle (β) between the Z-axis and a femoral line of the occupant seated in the seat by measuring an angle of the seat bottom; and means for receiving and using the determined values of α and β to determine an angle (φ) between the torso line and the femoral line of the occupant seated in the seat and thereby characterize a posture state of the occupant seated in the seat.

An autonomous driving control system and a method thereof are provided. The autonomous driving control system includes a strategy performing device that generates and performs a stop strategy of a vehicle on the basis of a target stop location, when a critical situation occurs during autonomous driving, a behavior controller that controls a behavior of the vehicle depending on the stop strategy, and an emergency module controller that runs a predetermined emergency module, when the critical situation occurs.

A vehicle seat provided in a vehicle includes: a seat body including a seat cushion and a seatback; an occupant support device displaceably provided on the seat body to press an occupant seated on the seat body; a notification device provided on the seat body to make notification to the occupant; an information acquisition device that acquires information including at least one of a surrounding environment of the vehicle and a driving state of the vehicle; and a control device that controls the occupant support device and the notification device based on the information. The notification device may be provided on the occupant support device. When the vehicle turns, the control device may cause the vibrator disposed on a side opposite from the turning direction to vibrate.

The present description relates to an occupant protecting system for a vehicle, a vehicle comprising such an occupant protecting system and an occupant protecting method for such a vehicle. The occupant protecting system comprises a seat assembly, a sensor unit, an actuator unit and a control unit. The sensor unit is configured to generate crash monitoring data of the vehicle. The control unit is configured to determine a crash type based on the crash monitoring data in case of a collision of the vehicle. The actuator unit comprises a pyrotechnic element. The actuator unit is arranged at the seat assembly and capable to adjust a position of the seat assembly. The control unit is configured to cause the actuator unit based on the crash type.

A safety system for vehicle may include a restraint surface adjustment mechanism for adjusting at least one of a height or an angle of a restraint surface disposed under a vehicle seat during a collision and/or predicted collision in which the vehicle seat is facing in the direction of travel and/or the direction of the oncoming collision. The seat may comprise a bench seat including a first seating space and a second seating space. A first restraint surface adjustment mechanism may be associated with the first seating space and a second restraint surface adjustment mechanism may be associated with the second seating space. The restraint surface adjustment mechanism may include, for example, an inflatable bladder, a movable plate which rotates about an axis, or other restraint surface adjustment mechanisms that adjust at least one of the height, angle, or physical property (e.g., rigidity) of one or more restraint surfaces.

An example operation includes one or more of determining a level of discomfort of an occupant in a transport, determining a level of danger of an environment external to the transport, and responsive to a combination of the level of discomfort and the level of danger exceeding a threshold, positioning a portion of the transport occupied by the occupant based on an amount the threshold is exceeded.

An extensively reconfigurable seat design can include a vehicle seat system including: a vehicle seat defining a vehicle occupant accommodating space, the vehicle seat including a seat cushion portion including multiple individually adjustable bladders, where each of the multiple individually adjustable bladders has a connected valve that controls fluid communication with an internal space of the individually adjustable bladder to adjust a pressure level within the internal space of the individually adjustable bladder, and an associated sensor configured to detect the pressure level within the internal space of the individually adjustable bladder. A computer can actively sense and control the pressure levels within the bladders, using the sensors and valves, to provide customization, adaptive, ride-active and intelligent control over a reconfigurable cushion for a vehicle.

An occupant protection auxiliary device includes: a seat mounted on a vehicle and on which an occupant is able to sit while facing a rear of the vehicle; a head detection sensor able to detect a relative position of a head of the occupant with respect to a headrest of the seat; and a control unit that determines whether to execute at least one of alerting the occupant, setting a speed limit, and changing a reclining angle based on a detection result of the head detection sensor.

A control system and method for a pneumatic seat of a vehicle and a computer-readable medium, the pneumatic seat including a plurality of airbags (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16) corresponding to different parts of the body of an occupant, where the control system further includes an information collection module (3), a determining module (4), and a control module (2), and the information collection module (3) is configured to collect motion information of the vehicle and/or external road information; the determining module (4) is configured to determine, based on the motion information and/or the road information, whether the vehicle satisfies either of a first condition and a second condition, where the first condition is whether continuous changes have occurred or are about to occur on a motion status of the vehicle in a first time period, and the second condition is whether a change range of the motion status of the vehicle in a second time period is or is about to be greater than a set threshold; and the control module (2) is configured to: when either of the first condition and the second condition is satisfied, control inflation and deflation of at least one of the airbags (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16), to move the body of the occupant to be adapted to the motion status of the vehicle and/or a change of the motion status of the vehicle, to reduce discomfort caused by carsickness.