In&motion - two new airbag systems for 2024
French airbag specialist In&motion is launching two new wearable airbag systems - Essential and Performance.
The two new systems have been developed from its trauma research and data recovery to meet the application specific needs for the protection of each motorbike discipline.
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| Performance |
The first equipment incorporating this new technology will be available for sale from March 2024 through 11 new products being offered by 9 partner brands. First on the market in 2018, this promises to be a pivotal year for the brand with a greater than 50 percent increase in its number of equipment partners.
At the same time as developing the necessary algorithms for its impact detection-response based systems, the company has recognised the importance of adapting the airbag’s functionality to styles of riding where the vital areas exposed to risk are different.
"To support this new R&D phase, our team of biomechanists worked on trauma research in collaboration with various laboratories at the Gustave Eiffel University. The results of these studies have led to the design of the two new airbag models - both of which are fundamentally innovative because they are adapted to the type of riding and falls observed in each sport".
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| Essential |
The company says it has confirmed its position as leader in the ready-to-wear electronic airbag market, working closely with its community of competition and leisure users.
Based on road trauma, the Essential module is the "perfect compromise between protection and comfort, for all types of driving. As its name suggests, this airbag goes straight to the essentials, covering vital areas: thorax, abdomen, back and neck. It is recommended for use on the road, in view of the risk of collisions with road obstacles or other vehicles, but it also offers protection benefits for occasional sports use."
It is also suitable for intensive motocross riding. Directly inspired by the brand’s original flagship ‘Origin’ module, it will cover up to five inflations before a maintenance intervention (compared with three on the old module).
The Performance airbag is directly derived from sports bike competition and has coverage adapted to those intensive sports practices - where side falls are frequent, but where road obstacles and other vehicles are less involved.
Unlike the Essential module, the abdomen is not covered during inflation, instead protecting the shoulders and ribs, in addition to the neck, thorax and back. This module is recommended for track and off-road use.
It will cover five to eight inflations depending on the product chosen, before a maintenance intervention is required.
The airbag used has also been upgraded to increase the number of times it can be inflated - to cope with more intensive use. All In&motion airbags are now designed with OPW (One Piece Woven) fabric airbag pockets - more flexible in comparison to the former PU component. This new component will enable the number of inflations to be increased from three to eight.
