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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1088102 · 14 Apr 2004
The method involves comparing the current ambient image to a prior ambient image. A current segmented image border is identified and captured by sensor by the differences between the current ambient image and the prior ambient image. A template image is th...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1097438 · 19 Mar 2003
An airbag device for a motor vehicle has an airbag (1) that is deployed upon inflation with a gas from a folded state into the vehicle interior. An inflation device (2) supplies gas for inflating the airbag. A sensing device (3) senses deployment of the ai...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1098851 · 22 Jan 2003
The present invention relates in general to systems used to determine whether airbag deployment should be disabled or modified due to the proximity of the occupant to the airbag. In particular, the present invention is an image processing system that uses ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1098843 · 22 Jan 2003
A method of detecting the improper mounting of a sensor on a motor vehicle includes monitoring the output signals of the sensor, determining the noise levels in the output signals, and comparing the noise levels from the output signals to a threshold noise...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1102785 · 31 Jul 2002
The data bus has transmitters (8,9) in the restraining arrangements (14,19) for coupling to the data bus as bus stations. A controller (2) for the restraining arrangements can be coupled to the data bus as a bus station and data can be transmitted over the...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1106291 · 6 Mar 2002
The present invention aims to prevent forcing of pins when a female connector is obliquely inserted into a shunt. [0002] The present invention is a shunt, which fits into a cylindrical socket being concavely formed in an external face of a housing of an in...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1112569 · 6 Jun 2001
The belt roller has a belt spool rotating in a frame and a locking mechanism to block the spool selectively. A vehicle-sensitive sensor is connected to input connection points of a control unit, and an actuator to operate the locking mechanism is connected...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1113156 · 9 May 2001
The initiator consists of a fragmenting container with two electrode pins for connecting to an electrical circuit (18) made from metal layers on an insulating support (16). The circuit incorporates a flat heating resistance (17) connected to the electrodes...