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To: Rainier who wrote (1165)	6/11/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: michael c. dodge	Read Replies (1) of 1671

Lisa.....I was the person questioning Mssrs. Smith and Townsend about TRW. I thought they answered as well as they could under the circumstances. Some auto mfgrs. have indicated they want a 'curtain', because they want more of the open space (where the window glass used to be) UNDER the ITS to be covered in a ROLLOVER. To keep the passenger inside the car in rollover (not side impact). Emphasis on 'rollover'. Keep the passenger inside the car structure in secondary rollover, with or without side impact.....and lasting up to 7 seconds. That is the apparently desired customer standard. SMU , as you know, and as anyone reading their patents can see, is working on both an oval-shaped ITS (to cover more window-opening area), and an ITS/curtain hybrid. Got to stay inflated at least 7 seconds, to allow the car to come to rest, and got to cover enough of the window opening to keep unbelted dummies (human and artificial) from flying out the window.

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