Occupant Classification System - Mercedes-Benz 2008 C-Class Operator's Manual

Window curtain air bags
1 Window curtain air bag
When deployed, the window curtain air
bags 1 are designed to provide increased
protection for the head (but not the chest
or arms) of the occupants on the side of
the vehicle on which the impact occurs.
The window curtain air bags fill up the area
indicated by the arrows.
The window curtain air bags are deployed:
on the impacted side of the vehicle
in impacts exceeding a preset deploy-
ment threshold
independently of the front air bags
regardless of whether the front-pas-
senger seat is occupied
in certain vehicle rollovers
The side window curtain air bags are not
deployed in impacts which do not exceed
the system's deployment threshold.
Safety and Security
Occupant safety

Occupant Classification System

The Occupant Classification System (OCS)
automatically turns the front passenger
front air bag on or off based on the classi-
fied occupant weight category determined
by weight sensor readings from the front
passenger seat.
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The system does not deactivate the front
passenger side impact air bag, the window cur-
tain air bag and the emergency tensioning de-
vice.
Occupants must sit properly belted in a
position that is as upright as possible with
their back against the seat backrest and
feet on the floor to be correctly classified.
If the occupant's weight is transferred to
another object in the vehicle (e.g. by lean-
ing on armrests), the OCS may not be able
to properly approximate the occupant's
weight category.
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