Continuing just-auto’s series of interviews with global players in the occupant restraints market, Matthew Beecham talked with Claus Rudolf, Vice President of Global Engineering at Takata Corp.

As we enter the next chapter of occupant restraints – which focuses more on individual safety for different occupants or crash configurations – Matthew Beecham talked with senior executives of TRW ...

A reactive head restraint and car seat system designed to reduce whiplash in rear-end vehicle collisions has been unveiled by British engineers. The unique concept has been brought to life using ...

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 ...

This paper discusses four aspects of computer modeling of restraint system performance: • Components of restraint systems (both vehicle and restraint hardware components) • Analytical representations ...

September 20, 2005 At this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, Johnson Controls revealed some novel occupant protection concepts: two new versions of an active head restraint and an active anti-submarining ...

Restraint System Technologies, Inc., incorporated in March 2002 and headquartered in Cabot, Pennsylvania, is a joint venture partnership with Penn United Technology, Inc. The company manufactures the ...

A faulty safety module could shut off stability control and keep the affected heavy-duty pickups from deploying their airbags.

Ram is recalling more than 52,500 of its heavy-duty pickup and chassis-cab trucks over an issue with driver-side airbags and seat belt pretensioners.