VEHICLE OCCUPANT EMERGENCY SYSTEM

摘要

A vehicle occupant emergency system comprising:a front seat;a front seat horizontal adjuster;a front seat seat-belt system; releasing devices for releasing the front seat from its pre-emergency horizontal adjust- ment;moving devices for moving the front seat rearward; stopping members for controlling a maximum extent to which the front seat can be moved rearward; restraining members for restraining the front seat from moving forward after its rearward movement; sensors for sensing a multiplicity of characteristics relative to an emergency; and a control unit for ope- rating the releasing devices and the moving devices in an emergency de- pending on the received signals from the sensors and its programming. The vehicle occupant emergency system may comprise: locking devices for pre- venting the front seat from moving forward after its rearward movement or relative to its pre-emergency horizontal adjustment; preventing devices for preventing the front seat from moving further rearward relative to its post-emergency position;a rear seat;a rear seat seat-belt system; belt-pretensioning devices; and sensors for sensing a multiplicity of cha- racteristics relative to an emergency with respect to the rear seat and to the rear seat seat-belt system.The front seat may be provided with a multiplicity of positions to which it can be moved rearward. The front seat may be provided with a variable maximum extent to which it can be moved rearward.