Restraint Control Systems
When a crash cannot be avoided, Veoneer’s Restraint Control Systems (RCS) trigger the vehicle’s passive safety system.
Passive safety systems employ an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) and various RSUs (Remote Sensor Units) to sense and trigger pre-crash and in-crash occupant protections (such as tightening safety belts and deploying airbags) when the system judges a collision has occurred.
Individual Products
- RCS Electronic Control Units (ECU)
- RCS Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
- Remote Sensing Unit (RSU)
- Pressure-Based Remote Sensor Unit (PRSU)
- Pressure Tube Assembly (PTA)
- Electronics for Motorized Seatbelt
The ECU contains acceleration and gyroscopic sensors and is normally mounted on rigid structure in a central location, while the RSUs are mounted in various peripheral locations such as frontal structures, door beams and pillars, door cavities, etc. RSUs contain sensors that measure acceleration or pressure changes and help to enable early and appropriate deployment of the airbags and seatbelt pre-tensioners.
Critical crash information is transmitted over e-call to emergency services and recorded for post-crash analysis in the Event Data Recorder (EDR).
A colleague received the phone call every parent fears
When the phone rang, our colleague learned that her son and his friend had been in a car accident, only a few minutes away from home. She drove to the scene. Her heart sank when she saw the crashed car.
“The boys were saved by the airbags,” the policeman said with a smile, pointing at the boys standing by the side of the road, in shock but otherwise fine.
Afterwards, our employee learned that the car was equipped with Veoneer’s RCS system.
“I felt very proud to learn that the hard work all of us do every day saved the most important person in my life. I want to say THANK YOU to each one of you, for your dedication, for following procedures and not cutting corners, and for loving what you do to make sure Veoneer produces the best quality products there are.”
SC3 Platform
- Basis for standardized off-the-shelf products.
- Scalable from low to high-end.
- Highly tailored chipset including;
- A scalable family of microcontrollers.
- Software based on our extensive experience in the RCS domain.
- New mechanical design with manufacturing standardization.
- The latest versions of our two high performance families of crash algorithms. - Commercial success - major awards with multiple OEMs.
