Airbag Expert Witnesses
What is an airbag expert witness?
Airbag expert witness candidates typically have expertise in mechanical engineering, biomechanics, automotive safety, crash sensor technology, crash data retrieval, event data recorders, and/or airbag system design. Often, airbag expert witnesses have advanced degrees in engineering or medicine, accreditation in traffic accident reconstruction (ACTAR, MOT, SAE), or law enforcement experience.
What types of cases require an airbag expert witness?
An expert in airbag technology might provide testimony in matters involving defective airbags, airbag product liability cases, or personal injury cases due to airbag deployment in motor vehicle accidents.
What litigation support work might an airbag expert witness be expected to perform?
An airbag expert witness could provide expertise in intellectual property matters, such as patent litigation or trade secret disputes. Law firms may also engage an automotive industry safety expert for pre-litigation consulting work. Litigation support by an airbag expert witness could include failure analysis, forensic engineering, traffic accident reconstruction, authoring expert reports, accident reconstruction, and expert witness testimony at trial.
Cahn Litigation Services has many years of experience finding the ideal expert to provide expert witness services for vehicle occupant protection matters on behalf of either the plaintiff or defendant.
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Airbag Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Airbag experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Airbag landscape.
Expert Witness #236308
This expert is one of a very few nationally who understand air bag technology from a design standpoint. Before becoming an independent consultant with an engineering services firm, this expert worked directly for OEMs on airbag safety and design. This expert had responsibility for validation and testing of seat belt and airbag development. This expert served as Fact Witness in a number of air bag design matters for the OEMs, as well as an Expert Witness since becoming a consultant. This expert also worked for Tier I suppliers, with design, development and release responsibility for front passenger airbag systems.
Start Airbag Expert SearchExpert Witness #256295
This expert holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is a certified Professional Engineer. This expert's focus in industry has been in automotive safety restraints and motion research. This expert is an Adjunct Professor in a Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering, and has worked the way up from Consultant to President and Senior Consultant for a company where this expert regularly deals with restraint system design, performance and usage. This expert has supervised and/or conducted testing of airbag systems, seatbelt systems, head/helmet impact, and child restraint systems. This expert is well published, holds two US seatbelt patents, and is a regular presenter at industry and academic conferences.
Start Airbag Expert SearchExpert Witness #218103
This expert holds a PhD and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer. This expert is an ASME Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member. This expert is also a member of ASM International (the Materials Information Society), the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (IEEE-VTS). This expert has unique multi-disciplinary experience in devices with electronic, mechanical, and thermal issues.
This expert has direct experience with investigations involving various aspects of airbag technology. This experience includes airbag inflators and the propellant that produces the gas to inflate the airbag. It also includes finite element simulations for products like airbags to investigate issues such as folding, venting, inflation dynamics and occupant interaction. This expert is also familiar with interaction with occupants (also out-of-position and small occupants) and associated issues. At its heart, an airbag is a very thin fabric membrane, folded, rapidly inflated, has special venting, etc. Thin shells and membranes for many different applications are strong areas for this expert.
This expert has testified in both trial and deposition for patent cases and other types of litigation. This expert has authored numerous expert reports, filed 8 IPR Declarations, multiple patent depositions and testified in 3 product trials and a patent trial. This expert has many years of consulting and expert witness experience including patents, design, regulatory, and failure/reliability issues of a variety of vehicular and other products covering a wide range of equipment and systems.
Start Airbag Expert SearchExpert Witness #234101
This expert is a licensed professional engineer and professor of Mechanical Engineering where this expert teaches courses on product design and engineering design methodology. This expert has developed laboratories for product design and reverse engineering. Holding a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, this expert has experience with sensors, actuators and controllers. This expert's expertise extends to a range of sensors used in the field of automotive crash safety, including airbag development, rollover detection, stability control, and digital steering. Such sensors are similar to those used in recreational vehicle leveling systems. This expert is well-published and has presented on recreational vehicle cases. This expert has analyzed recreational vehicle and automotive patent claims as an expert witness.
Start Airbag Expert SearchExpert Witness #259822
This expert holds a B.S. through Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Materials Science and has a history in the Automotive Industry. This expert leads a highly successful and well-respected consultancy providing support to intellectual property litigation in the automotive electronics field.
This expert spent most of this expert's career specializing in Automotive Electronics Systems and Electric Vehicle hardware design and manufacturing, and served as Department Head of Advanced Instrumentation and Display, Director of all Advanced Development and Systems Integration, Vice President of Engineering Design and release of product designs for the Asia/Pacific market, and Managing Director of a Multi-Media Product and Systems product line. This expert has consulting experience working for Tier One (supplying directly to a vehicle manufacturer) and Tier Two (supplying to a Tier One) engaged in automotive electronic device and systems design for the North American market but with the primary supplier client-based in Asia/Pacific, North America, or Europe.
- In almost all of these design projects this expert had to be aware of both the radiation that these new products emanated across the electromagnetic spectrum and also the potential effect of radiation that impinged on these products/systems coming from other electronic devices/products/systems in or around the vehicle in question.- Mechanisms to deal with EMI covered the normal and typical wide range of solutions including: solutions on board circuit board designs, system shielding in wiring of various sorts, and shielding in wrap-around metal boxes for various subsystem boxes with electronic products contained therein.- The product/systems range that this expert dealt with included audio systems, infotainment (e.g. including navigation) systems, telematics systems including analog and digital telephony, instrumentation systems and displays in front of the driver and along the car midline between the driver and passenger, many safety products and systems including stability control, air bag, anti-skid braking, forward looking object detection/warning/avoidance systems (lasers and optical systems), tire pressure monitors, engine and transmission control systems, electric vehicle electronic systems, etc.This expert has extensive expert witness experience. This expert has worked for both Defendants (60%) & Plaintiffs (40%), and experience with IPRs, PGRs, and in District Court. This expert has taken on 19 expert cases, 9 w/one or more IPRs/PGRs, worked with 23 different law firms, performed prior art searches, authored dozens of written declarations and reports, and provided 10 Depositions/Testimony.
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