METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ACTUATABLE SAFETY APPARATUS

Japanese Patent JP2015071421

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, in particular, a method and an apparatus for controlling an actuatable vehicle safety device in response to determining the occurrence of a vehicle crash condition.SOLUTION: A method for determining a crash condition of a vehicle comprises the step of sensing crash acceleration in a first direction substantially parallel to a front-to-rear axis of the vehicle and providing a first acceleration signal indicative thereof. The method also comprises the step of sensing crash acceleration in a second direction substantially parallel to a side-to-side axis of the vehicle and near opposite sides of the vehicle and providing second acceleration signals indicative thereof. The method further comprises the steps of determining a transverse crash value functionally related to the second acceleration signals and comparing the determined transverse crash value against a safing threshold. The method still further comprises the step of determining a crash condition of the vehicle in response to the comparison a and the first acceleration signal b.

FOO CHEK-PENG
TONGTONG WANG COUTURE
XU QUANBO
LIU WEI
CHENG XIAOLIANG
WANG HONGMEI
HUANG YUEYI
WANG YONG
YEH HUAHN-FERN
KEVIN DANIEL WEISS
NIKHIL BHASKAR MUDALIAR
LILA GHANNAM
SUMMER PAUL LEO

JP2014247578A

April 16, 2015

December 08, 2014

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TRW AUTOMOTIVE US LLC

B60R21/0136; B60R21/00; B60R21/16

JP2008506579A	2008-03-06
JPH1086787A	1998-04-07
JP2003075465A	2003-03-12
JP2002090383A	2002-03-27

Shinjiro Ono
Yasushi Kobayashi
Shigeo Takeuchi
Osamu Yamamoto
Shigeru Sakuma

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