Systems for providing for an external vehicle airbag to mitigate the negative effects of vehicle rollover are described. In an exemplary implementation, one or more airbags 14 are disposed inside the roof rails 12 attached to a vehicle roof. An inflator 20, is configured to inflate the air bag which may activate and inflate the airbag given communication from a rollover sensor. The airbags may be held in desirable deployed position covering one or more windows on the side of a vehicle by one or more elastic tethers.


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    Title :

    External roof-rack mounted airbag


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    Publication date :

    2017-04-26


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR



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