MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621023351 A) filed by Ve Commercial Vehicles Ltd., Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, on Feb. 27, for 'an adaptive seat retraction system for a vehicle.'
Inventor(s) include Vikas Vasant Jagtap; and Ashish Paroha.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An adaptive seat retraction system (100) for a vehicle is disclosed. The adaptive seat retraction system (100) comprises a plurality of sensors including at least one forward-looking obstacle detection sensor (102) configured to detect an obstacle and calculate a time-to-impact, an inertial measurement unit (104) configured to detect acceleration and crash signatures, and a seat position sensor (106) configured to detect a position of a driver seat (200), a safety electronic control unit (108) to perform sensor fusion and determine a collision probability, at least one seat actuator (110) operatively coupled to the driver seat (200), a seatbelt pretensioner (112), upon determination that an imminent frontal collision is likely, triggers the at least one seat actuator (110) to retract the driver seat (200) rearward by a predetermined distance of about 100-150 mm prior to impact and to simultaneously activate the seatbelt pretensioner (112) to restrain an occupant."
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