{
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "description": "A passenger protection apparatus for a vehicle according to the invention has an excellent effect in that lower limbs of the vehicle occupant can be successfully held even during a frontal offset impact or an oblique impact. The passenger protection apparatus includes a pair of active knee bolsters…",
  "path": "/patents/1087090",
  "publishedAt": "2004-05-19T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:oql6ds5vnff4ugar6rruliwd/site.standard.publication/3mn3ohu7oxx5w",
  "tags": [
    "B60R21/02",
    "TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD [JP]"
  ],
  "textContent": "A passenger protection apparatus for a vehicle according to the invention has an excellent effect in that lower limbs of the vehicle occupant can be successfully held even during a frontal offset impact or an oblique impact. The passenger protection apparatus includes a pair of active knee bolsters (24,25) provided in an instrument panel or at a vicinity thereof, each bolster (24,25) being capable of restraining a corresponding lower limb of a passenger; a detector which, at a time of a collision, can detect a direction thereof; and a controller which, in accordance with the detection, can control the active knee bolsters (24,25) independently from each other.",
  "title": "Passenger protection apparatus for a vehicle"
}