Ford continues to explore new possibilities for the traditional cash safety airbag.
Ford has filed a second patent application for roof-mounted airbags aimed at offering added crash protection to vehicle occupants.
The automaker filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2021 that deploy from a vehicle's headliner and surround the occupants. Now a second application has appeared showing a similar concept.Published on Jan. 26, 2023, this second patent application focuses on airbags that could cover the space between the front seats and dashboard.
While the application seems to focus on a front-row use case, it seems like this design could be used in the second- and third rows as well. Ford even shows the interior of a three-row vehicle in one of the accompanying drawings.Unlike the previous version, though, this design seems less specifically aimed at autonomous vehicles, something Ford mentioned in the first patent application.
that would deploy from behind a vehicle's grille during collisions. It remains to be seen if any of these novel airbag systems will reach production, however.
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