TRW Vehicle Safety Systems has introduced an Active Head Restraint (AHR) system that it said is lighter, less complicated, and uses fewer components than competing systems. The AHR is independent of ...

What Is It: Auto makers are coming out with head-restraint systems designed to make being rear-ended less of a pain in the neck. When a car is hit from behind with enough force, occupants' bodies move ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Neck injuries occuring in rear impacts, often referred to as "whiplash" injuries, have become one of the most common types of injury in car ...

GM has filed a patent application for an active head seat restraint system for vehicles. The GM patent filing has been assigned application number US 11,433,792 B2 with the United States Patent and ...

The new system reduces the impact of whiplash injury in rear-end collisions by moving the head restraint forward. The anti-whiplash system is completely contained within the head restraint. Unlike the ...

The risk of a fatal traffic crash worries many motorists, but statistics show that an accident is more likely to result in a garden-variety whiplash--not fatal, but apt to cause pain for days, even ...

In the second generation of its electronically activated head restraints, Grammer AG–Automotive has replaced the gas generator cartridge previously used as a deployment device with an electromagnetic ...

The crux of the decision came down to whether or not the weight of the evidence presented at trial by the plaintiff regarding random deployment defects in the active head restraints system for the ...