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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1097429 · 19 Mar 2003
The invention provides a collision detecting apparatus for a vehicle, including an integrating means for cumulatively integrating an output from an acceleration sensor when the output exceeds a specific calculation start level, and a collision detecting me...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1099260 · 2 Jan 2003
A method and system of activating a safety device of a vehicle having x, y and z-axes. The method includes generating a y-acceleration signal representative of the acceleration of the vehicle in the y-axis, generating an angular-rate signal representative ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1100004 · 4 Dec 2002
A vehicle occupant restraint system includes a first restraint apparatus to restrain an occupant in a first direction such as the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and a second restraint apparatus to restrain the occupant in a second direction such as...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1100316 · 20 Nov 2002
A collision severity determining system (20) for determining severity of a collision of a vehicle includes a first deceleration detector (22) disposed in a central portion of a vehicle body for detecting a vehicle deceleration in a longitudinal direction o...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1101114 · 9 Oct 2002
The method involves generating trigger signals from sensors for triggering the occupant protection system and comparing them with a threshold value used as a triggering criterion. The threshold value is continuously varied or adapted depending on the measu...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1102383 · 21 Aug 2002
Systems and methods for discriminating a vehicle surrounding circumstance for monitoring the vehicle surrounding and for warning an obstacle present around the vehicle surrounding are disclosed wherein each system has a vehicle speed detecting unit (12) de...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1103220 · 10 Jul 2002
A collision recording apparatus records times in a memory, when a collision waveform provided accompanying a collision of a mobile unit and a waveform derived from the collision waveform reach predetermined values. The collision recording apparatus also re...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1106221 · 6 Mar 2002
Device for sensing operating states of a vehicle, in particular a motorcycle, comprising an acceleration sensor (3), wherein the acceleration sensor is installed in the electronic control unit (1) of the motorcycle and is adapted to detect fall and/or coll...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1107049 · 23 Jan 2002
A procedure for the recognition of the gravity of a vehicle crash has the output signal of one or more acceleration sensors processed and passed to a neuronal network which controls a release unit for a passenger protection device. Through the release unit...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1111400 · 25 Jul 2001
The method involves converting the signals from n sensors (1,2) aligned in different directions into n output signals using a signal processor (3) with a computer unit. The output signals represent linear combinations of sensor input signals in which coeff...