Whiplash reduction system
First Claim
1. A low cost whiplash reduction system for a host vehicle, said host vehicle including a sensor arrangement operable to detect closing velocities of one or more rearwardly approaching objects substantially in a direction of travel of the host vehicle regardless of host vehicle speed, and a processing arrangement for receiving information from the sensor arrangement indicative of said detected closing velocities, said processing arrangement being operable to actuate adaptive safety features in response to detected velocities of detected rearwardly approaching objects to the host vehicle to automatically selectively apply said adaptive safety features in response to said information received from the sensor arrangement for avoiding or mitigating host vehicle occupant whiplash injury occasioned by a crash of the rearwardly approaching object and the host vehicle.
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Abstract
A low cost whiplash reduction system for a host vehicle, said host vehicle including a sensor arrangement operable to detect closing velocities of one or more rearwardly approaching objects substantially in a direction of travel of the host vehicle, and a processing arrangement for receiving information from the sensor arrangement indicative of said detected closing velocities, said processing arrangement being operable to actuate adaptive safety features in response to detected velocities of detected rearwardly approaching objects to the host vehicle to automatically selectively apply said adaptive safety features in response to said information received from the sensor arrangement for avoiding or mitigating host vehicle occupant neck whiplash injury occasioned by a crash of the rearwardly approaching object and the host vehicle.
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21 Claims
- 1. A low cost whiplash reduction system for a host vehicle, said host vehicle including a sensor arrangement operable to detect closing velocities of one or more rearwardly approaching objects substantially in a direction of travel of the host vehicle regardless of host vehicle speed, and a processing arrangement for receiving information from the sensor arrangement indicative of said detected closing velocities, said processing arrangement being operable to actuate adaptive safety features in response to detected velocities of detected rearwardly approaching objects to the host vehicle to automatically selectively apply said adaptive safety features in response to said information received from the sensor arrangement for avoiding or mitigating host vehicle occupant whiplash injury occasioned by a crash of the rearwardly approaching object and the host vehicle.
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19. A method of automatically actuating adaptive safety features responsive to a rearwardly approaching object to a host vehicle regardless of host vehicle speed, said host vehicle including an automatic collision management system including a sensor arrangement coupled in communication with a processing arrangement and one or more adaptive safety features of the host vehicle;
- said method including steps of;
(a) employing the sensor arrangement to detect closing velocities of one or more rearwardly approaching objects in a direction of travel of the host vehicle regardless of host vehicle speed;
(b) receiving information at the processing arrangement from the sensor arrangement describing said closing velocities of said one or more oncoming objects, and assessing from said information whether or not a rear end crash between said one or more oncoming objects and the host vehicle is likely, and (c) automatically actuating said adaptive safety features when a risk of a crash is determined by the processing arrangement to be likely. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
- said method including steps of;
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