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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1102835 · 31 Jul 2002
A vehicle rollover event detector (10) includes an accelerometer (80) that senses vehicle acceleration in a direction offset from a front-to-rear axis of the vehicle (12) and provides an acceleration signal (101) indicative thereof. A rollover sensor (14) ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1102778 · 31 Jul 2002
The method involves comparing an acceleration and/or a summed acceleration in the direction of travel with defined thresholds for triggering a restraining system. The acceleration and/or the summed acceleration in the direction of travel are increased for ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1102913 · 24 Jul 2002
An airbag is released in two stages. In a usual accident situation a first chamber (5) is triggered with a greater propelling charge and, at a staggered time, a second chamber (6) is triggered with a lower propelling charge. Upon detecting a particular acc...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1102909 · 24 Jul 2002
Control systems (20-27) and methods for a vehicle-occupant protecting apparatus (11-19), including a right side-crash sensor (23) and a left side-crash sensor (24) both operable to detect a side crash of a vehicle (10) on the basis of a lateral acceleratio...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1103303 · 3 Jul 2002
Control systems and methods for controlling a vehicle-occupant protecting apparatus that includes two vehicle-occupant protecting devices (31, 32, 33, 34, 41) which are disposed on respective right and left sides of an automotive vehicle, are operable to d...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1108030 · 5 Dec 2001
An integrated vision system is disclosed. Images of outside area are taken by at least one stereo-camera (2) installed in a vehicle. A pair of images taken by the stereo-camera are processed by a stereo-image recognizer (11) for recognition of objects that...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1108216 · 28 Nov 2001
The method involves computing the current transverse axis inclination angle using a signal from a gyro sensor detecting rotation about the longitudinal axis and a transverse axis initial position sensor signal, generating a triggering threshold from a stat...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1108215 · 28 Nov 2001
The method involves generating a triggering algorithm for a safety device depending on a rotation rate sensor (1) by generating a theoretical rollover characteristic and generating the triggering algorithm by approximating the rollover characteristic in th...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1108502 · 21 Nov 2001
The present invention relates to an acceleration sensor which can be provided in a place with extreme ambient temperature variations, for example, near a vehicle engine, and an acceleration detecting system having the acceleration sensor, which are used to...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1109017 · 24 Oct 2001
The controler receives and evaluates input signals and produces a triggering signal under defined conditions. A sensor detects front wheel rotation or deceleration and generates a corresponding signal. If an anti-lock braking system is present an activatio...