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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1095910 · 21 May 2003
A vehicle rollover detection apparatus and method are provided for detecting an overturn condition of the vehicle. The rollover detection apparatus includes an angular rate sensor (12) sensing angular rate of the vehicle, and a vertical accelcrometer (14) ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1096074 · 14 May 2003
An autonomous emergency braking apparatus (23) includes an accelerator pedal (29) operated by the driver coupled to a braking system (26) and used to control the overall vehicle speed. When a forward detection apparatus (20) detects an imminent contact, th...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1097123 · 2 Apr 2003
The method entails starting a timer having a set running time when a first low crash severity occurs. When a higher crash severity occurs during the running time of the timer, a restraining device is triggered with an analyzing unit only upon expiration of...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1097085 · 2 Apr 2003
The method has emergency automatic opening of the automobile doors, electric windows and/or sunroof initiated by the central control device (10), used for operation of the automobile passenger restraint devices (14,16,17,18; 20) in a crash situation. The s...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1099292 · 2 Jan 2003
The arrangement has at least one drive (3) for raising the engine hood (1) if an accident involving a person occurs and a protective device (15) for the person in the hood and/or windscreen area. The engine hood has an associated triggering device coupled ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1100256 · 20 Nov 2002
Angular acceleration ( alpha x) of the vehicle is measured, especially about an axis of rotation (x) parallel to the vehicle axis, using a sensor (4). A computer (5) evaluates the result, to assess the situation of the vehicle relative to its surroundings....
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1100731 · 30 Oct 2002
2.1. Known triggering methods ensure safe deployment of the occupant protection system in the event of a crash with a low trigger threshold; however, the risk of false triggering increases when, for example, curbs, road undulations, potholes or similar obs...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1101373 · 2 Oct 2002
A roll sensor system for a land vehicle is provided to determine when a vehicle roll condition has occurred and to trigger a safety system in response to that determination. In certain embodiments, an angular rate sensor is used to obtain an angular rate a...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1101464 · 25 Sep 2002
An occupant restraint system and a method for operating the same are disclosed as including an impact detector unit (3) having two impact sensors (6a, 6b), which detect impact to produce sensory outputs representing impact status that is classified into th...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1102006 · 4 Sep 2002
A rollover condition is detected responsive to the comparison of a figure of merit (FOM) with a threshold wherein the threshold is given generally as a function of a period of time commencing with a time of inception determined from one or both of a measur...