US 12,286,072 B2
Vehicle with pet protection function
Kazuya Yamane, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/980,753.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-189066 (JP), filed on Nov. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0158988 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 21/16 (2006.01); A01K 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 21/16 (2013.01) [A01K 1/0272 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle with a pet protection function, the vehicle comprising:
a pet guard body disposed in a vehicle compartment of the vehicle on which a pet is to be loaded in such a manner that the pet guard body partitions the vehicle compartment into a front portion and a rear portion;
a first air-bag device configured to be deployed behind the pet guard body;
a controller configured to determine whether to deploy the first air-bag device upon contact of the vehicle; and
a second air-bag device comprises a side curtain air-bag device configured to be deployed adjacent to the first air-bag device in the vehicle that deploys toward the first air-bag device, wherein
the first air-bag device comprises a pet air-bag configured to be deployed not to interfere with a deploying region of the second air-bag device, and
the controller is configured to determine whether to deploy the pet air-bag of the first air-bag device upon a frontal contact of the vehicle and deploy the second air-bag device together with the first air-bag device only upon the determination to deploy the pet air-bag of the first air-bag device according to the frontal contact.