Patent ID: 11951881
Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A vehicle seat assembly for mounting within a vehicle cabin of a vehicle—comprising,
a vehicle seat including a seat backrest and a seat base, the seat backrest connected to the seat base so as to be movable relative to the seat base in a front-rear direction of the vehicle such that the vehicle seat is capable of facing a front or a rear of the vehicle; and
a side airbag device arranged on a side frame of a seat backrest frame of the vehicle seat and including
a side airbag configured to be deployed between the vehicle seat and a side wall of the vehicle when in an inflated and expanded state, such that the side airbag is deployed between a passenger seated in the vehicle seat and a side wall of the vehicle regardless of whether the vehicle seat faces the front or the rear of the vehicle, so as to provide protection for the passenger,
wherein the side airbag includes a first side airbag and a second side airbag, and upon deployment the first side airbag is positioned in front of the second side airbag in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, such that if the vehicle seat faces the front of the vehicle, the deployed first side airbag provides protection for a passenger seated in the vehicle seat, and if the vehicle seat faces the rear of the vehicle, the deployed second side airbag provides protection for a passenger seated in the vehicle seat, and
wherein the first side airbag and the second side airbag are in fluid communication with each other.