Safety apparatus for a motor vehicle, and method for communicating the status of a safety apparatus of a motor vehicle
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Abstract
A safety apparatus for a motor vehicle, comprising: a plurality of occupant protection devices and sensors associated with them; a processing device that checks whether the occupant protection devices and/or associated sensors are in operation and/or properly functional, and ascertains status information therefrom; and an output device that, in consideration of all the status information, communicates the operating status possessed by each individual occupant protection device and/or sensor. Also described is a method for communicating the status of a safety apparatus of a motor vehicle.
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28 Claims
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14. A safety apparatus for a motor vehicle, comprising:
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a plurality of occupant protection elements;
a plurality of sensors associated with the plurality of occupant protection elements;
a processing device that checks whether at least one of the occupant protection elements and the associated sensors are at least one of in operation and properly functional, the processing device ascertaining status information from at least one of the occupant protection elements and the associated sensors; and
an output device that, in consideration of the status information, communicates an operating status possessed by at least one of each individual occupant protection element and each sensor. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28)
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24. A method for communicating a status of a safety apparatus of a motor vehicle, comprising:
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checking whether at least one of a plurality of occupant protection elements and an associated plurality of sensors are at least one of in operation and properly functional;
ascertaining status information from the at least one of the plurality of occupant protection elements and the associated plurality of sensors; and
outputting, in consideration of the status information, an operating status possessed by at least one of each individual occupant protection element and each sensor. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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