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Passenger Protection

Our MR technology provides continually optimizing, re-settable safety solutions that maximize crash safety for vehicle occupants of all shapes, sizes weights and positions.  By combining MR’s infinitely-variable control with advanced sensors, an MR passenger protection system can be adjusted to provide the perfect resistance based on the impact severity and the passenger size.

MR Technology Advantages

  • Optimal impact response. Our MR technology enables infinite, continuous and automatic control of occupant-protection systems corresponding to the physical attributes of occupants as well as the impact forces exerted upon the vehicle.
  • Dynamic impact response. Allows re-optimization of occupant-protection settings throughout the entire duration of instantaneously recurring impact sequences.
  • Minimal package size. Provides higher dissipative energy density than any other controllable material technology.
  • Millisecond response time. Counters impact forces in less than 10 milliseconds.

 

CASE STUDY
Bringing a smoother ride to GM customers. Using LORD Corporation’s proprietary magneto-rheological (MR) fluid technology, Delphi Corporation’s MagneRide™ system incorporates MR fluid-based monotube shock absorbers with a sensor set and an onboard controller.
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