Motorcycle Safety System Adaptive Triggering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Motorcycle riders face higher risks due to unstable driving physics, limited protective measures, and sensitivity to environmental factors, with existing safety systems often optimizing internal or external components separately rather than collectively.
Innovation Solution
A modular and adaptive safety system that integrates both internal and external safety components, using a centralized evaluation and control unit to select the most effective triggering concept based on available safety components, ensuring optimal coordination and activation of airbags, belts, and other safety features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If passive safety systems are integrated solely into the motor bike, then the system structure is simplified, but the level of safety is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines internal safety components (integrated into the motor bike) and external safety components (worn by the rider) into a unified safety system. The control unit coordinates both internal and external airbags, safety belts, and other protective devices to work together, achieving synergistic protection that exceeds the sum of individual components.
Solution Approach 2:
The safety system is designed to accommodate multiple types of safety components with different functions - internal airbags for chest and head protection, external airbags for additional cushioning, safety belts for restraint, and protective clothing for abrasion resistance. This multi-functional approach allows the system to address various aspects of rider safety simultaneously.
2Reliability
If safety components are activated independently without coordination, then each component can function optimally, but additional injuries may occur due to uncoordinated activation
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit continuously monitors the operational status of all safety components through feedback signals. When a component is activated or its status changes, the control unit receives this information and adjusts the activation timing and coordination of other components accordingly, ensuring synchronized and complementary protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit pre-establishes coordination protocols for all safety components before a crash occurs. In the event of a detected collision, the system executes pre-planned activation sequences that ensure components are deployed in the optimal order and combination, preventing any component from activating in a way that could cause additional harm.
3Device complexity
If internal and external safety components are optimized independently, then each subsystem can be simplified, but the overall protective effect is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the optimization processes of internal and external safety components into a unified system-level optimization. The control unit coordinates the triggering concepts of both internal and external airbags, safety belts, and protective clothing to work together synergistically, ensuring that the combined protective effect is maximized rather than merely the sum of independent optimizations.
Data Source
AI summary
A safety system for a motor bike includes an evaluation and control unit which receives crash-relevant information from at least one sensor unit and evaluates it for the purpose of detecting a crash, and in response to a detected crash, the evaluation and control unit activates at least one external safety component and/or at least one internal safety component using a triggering concept. The evaluation and control unit receives presence signals from the at least one external safety component and/or the at least one internal safety component and evaluates the received signals in order to detect the safety components currently available. The evaluation and control unit selects the triggering concept as a function of the detected safety components currently available.