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

Claim 0:
1. 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 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 the vehicle seat and including:
a first side airbag and a second side airbag that are not in fluid communication with each other and are configured to be deployed between the vehicle seat and a side wall of the vehicle- when in an inflated and expanded state;
a controller for determining an orientation of the vehicle seat and detecting an impact signal to output a control signal; and
a gas generator for generating, based on the control signal of the controller, a gas to inflate the first side airbag or the second side airbag, such that the first side airbag is deployed if the vehicle seat is facing the front of the vehicle and the second side airbag is deployed if the vehicle seat is facing the rear of the vehicle,
wherein the first side airbag has a volume in a deployed state that is smaller than a volume of the second side airbag in the deployed state.