US 11,987,201 B2
Airbag system, object protection method, and program
Hidetoshi Nakamura, Wako (JP); Kenji Komori, Wako (JP); Kenyu Okamura, Tokyo (JP); Osamu Ito, Wako (JP); Hiroyuki Asanuma, Wako (JP); and Hyejin Bae, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/115,023.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-032279 (JP), filed on Mar. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0278520 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 21/36 (2011.01)
CPC B60R 21/36 (2013.01) 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An airbag system comprising:
a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle;
a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber;
a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle;
a second right chamber that is expandable on the first right chamber;
a recognition portion that recognizes a risk object which is present in a vicinity of the vehicle;
a prediction portion that predicts a collision between the risk object and the vehicle; and
an expansion control portion that performs an expansion control of the first left chamber, the second left chamber, the first right chamber, and the second right chamber based on a prediction of the prediction portion.