×

Vehicle occupant restraint deployment safing system

  • US 20030120408A1
  • Filed: 12/20/2001
  • Published: 06/26/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
First Claim
Patent Images

1. An occupant restraint deployment apparatus for a vehicle having a passenger compartment and first and second locations outside the passenger compartment comprising:

  • an occupant restraint in the passenger compartment capable of deployment in first and second deployment stages;

    a first crash sensor at the first location outside the passenger compartment responsive to a first location acceleration to derive a first satellite deploy level signal;

    a second crash sensor at the second location outside the passenger compartment responsive to a second location acceleration to derive a second satellite deploy level signal; and

    a crash discriminator programmed to deploy the occupant restraint in a first deployment stage in response to receipt, within a predetermined time period, of (1) the first satellite deploy level signal having a value at least equal to a first predetermined deploy value corresponding to the first deployment stage and (2) the second satellite deploy level signal having a value at least equal to a first predetermined safing value corresponding to the first deployment stage.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×