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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1068729 · 29 Mar 2006
A collision determining apparatus for a vehicle includes: a first acceleration measuring device (11, 12); a second acceleration measuring device (21); a movement amount calculating device (24); a change in movement speed calculating device (23); a first co...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1069025 · 22 Mar 2006
Impending rollover events are detected based on vehicle roll rate, roll angle and lateral acceleration, and an assessment of the relative polarities of vehicle roll rate and lateral acceleration. When the vehicle roll rate and lateral acceleration are oppo...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1069022 · 22 Mar 2006
A method of controlling a restraint device in a vehicle. The method comprises sensing an acceleration of the vehicle, analyzing the acceleration with at least two independent thresholds comprising a no-abuse condition threshold, and activating the restrain...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1069654 · 1 Mar 2006
A method of controlling a restraint device in a vehicle, and an apparatus employing the method. The method includes sensing accelerations of the vehicle, determining an energy value, determining a transformed acceleration, retrieving a threshold based on t...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1070517 · 25 Jan 2006
The present invention relates to a method and system for detecting a vehicle rollover or near-rollover event that may precede a rollover of a vehicle. The system comprises controller (5) connected to at least one right and at least one left vehicle tire pr...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1070762 · 18 Jan 2006
A vehicle occupant protection apparatus 1 including: a first acceleration sensor (2) for detecting acceleration of a front portion of a vehicle (
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1070887 · 11 Jan 2006
The rollover sensing system for a vehicle has electronic control unit connected to sensors, and at least one irreversible and at least one reversible safety device. The control unit during the sensing of a rollover scenario from the sensor data between at ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1071605 · 21 Dec 2005
The system comprises a central control and data processing unit connected to a number of peripheral sensor units (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14). The sensor units are located at the engine compartment (12, 13), the front struts (1, 11), the central (7, 10...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1074160 · 14 Sep 2005
The method involves detecting a vehicle acceleration and/or a force acting on the vehicle, comparing a sensor signal with a triggering threshold (1) for the at least one protection device and generating at least one trigger signal depending on the comparis...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1074433 · 7 Sep 2005
An activation control device for an airbag device decreases the management costs by generalization of satellite sensors. There is provided at least one impact detection section disposed at a predetermined position of a vehicle, which detects a degree of sh...