Airbag deployment
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1. A method of deploying a side impact airbag of a vehicle, comprising:
- at least one airbag that is disposed between a first occupant seating position of a first side of the vehicle and a second occupant seating position of a second side of the vehicle; and
selectively determining a delay time based on an impact type, a suppression determination, and a determination of occupied seats in a vehicle, where the delay time associated with an impact on a first side of the vehicle is different than the delay time associated with an impact on a second side of the vehicle; and
selectively generating a control signal via a control module having a processor to at least one of deploy and not deploy the side impact airbag based on the delay time and said deployment of said airbag is responsive to said delay time for each side of the vehicle so that deployment time of said airbag on the first side of the vehicle is different than deployment time of said airbag on the second side of the vehicle.
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Abstract
A method of deploying a side impact airbag is provided. The method includes selectively determining a delay time based on an impact type, where the delay time associated with an impact on a first side is different than the delay time associated with an impact on a second side; and selectively generating a control signal to at least one of deploy and not deploy the side impact airbag based on the delay time.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of deploying a side impact airbag of a vehicle, comprising:
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at least one airbag that is disposed between a first occupant seating position of a first side of the vehicle and a second occupant seating position of a second side of the vehicle; and selectively determining a delay time based on an impact type, a suppression determination, and a determination of occupied seats in a vehicle, where the delay time associated with an impact on a first side of the vehicle is different than the delay time associated with an impact on a second side of the vehicle; and selectively generating a control signal via a control module having a processor to at least one of deploy and not deploy the side impact airbag based on the delay time and said deployment of said airbag is responsive to said delay time for each side of the vehicle so that deployment time of said airbag on the first side of the vehicle is different than deployment time of said airbag on the second side of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An airbag deployment system, comprising:
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at least one airbag that is disposed between a first occupant seating position of a first side of a vehicle and a second occupant seating position of a second side of the vehicle; and an actuation unit responsive to the control module such that the actuation unit deploys the at least one airbag after a delay time occurs, wherein at least one of the delay time and the deployment is selectively determined based on an impact type a suppression determination, and a determination of occupied seats in the vehicle, where the delay time associated with deployment on the first side of the vehicle is different than the delay time associated with deployment on the second side of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A vehicle, comprising:
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a plurality of airbags wherein at least one airbag is disposed between a first occupant seating position of a first side of the vehicle and a second occupant seating position of a second side of the vehicle; a control module that selectively determines at least one of a decision to deploy and a delay time based on an impact type, where the delay time associated with an impact on the first side is different than the delay time associated with an impact on the second side and deployment of the airbag on a first side of the vehicle is different than deployment time of the airbag on a second side of the vehicle an actuation unit that deploys the at least one airbag after the delay time occurs. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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