Device for sensing lateral impact

• US 20040032322A1
• Filed: 09/08/2003
• Published: 02/19/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Kocher, Pascal, Aidam, Rolf, Arndt, Michael, Recknagel, Rolf-Juergen
• Application Number:
  US10/333,040
• Publication Number:
  US 20040032322A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/436
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0006 Lateral collision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0119 Plausibility check
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/013 including means for detecting collisions, impending collisions or roll-over

Abstract

A system for side-impact detection is proposed which is distinguished in that both a temperature sensor as well as an acceleration sensor are accommodated in a structural unit. One of the sensors in each case is used for a plausibility check.

Claims

1. A system for side-impact detection, the system being able to be connected to a control device (1) and comprising a temperature sensor (5) as well as an acceleration sensor (6) for side-impact detection, wherein the system (2, 3) is accommodated as a structural unit in a side panel of a vehicle designed as a cavity.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the system (2, 3) transmits sensor values of the temperature sensor (5) and the acceleration sensor (6) to the control device (1).

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the system (2, 3, 4) includes a processor (9) for evaluating at least one of the sensor signals as a plausibility check and transmits a result of the plausibility check to the control device (1).

4. The system as recited in claim 2, wherein the system includes an interface component (9) for forming a multiplex from the sensor values.

5. The system as recited in one of the preceding claims, wherein the system (2, 3, 4) includes a common housing for the temperature sensor and the acceleration sensor.