Collision determination apparatus for vehicle

• US 8,935,012 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2013
• Issued: 01/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Kasai, Takao
• Primary Examiner(s): Jabr, Fadey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Soofi, Yazan A
• Application Number:
  US13/759,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20130245856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/45
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/0132 responsive to vehicle motion parameters , e.g. to vehicle longitudinal or transversal deceleration or speed value
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00

Abstract

A collision determination apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle includes a wiring substrate, a first acceleration sensor, a second acceleration sensor, an analog-to-digital converter, and a central processing unit. The wiring substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite from each other. The first acceleration sensor is mounted on one of the first surface and the second surface. The second acceleration sensor is mounted on the other one of the first surface and the second surface in a state where the second acceleration sensor is rotated 90 degrees with respect to the first acceleration sensor. The analog-to-digital converter converts an analog signal from the first acceleration sensor or the second acceleration sensor to a digital signal. The central processing unit determines a collision by an arithmetic processing of the digital signal.

Claims

1. A collision determination apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle comprising:

a wiring substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite from each other;

a first acceleration sensor mounted on one of the first surface and the second surface of the wiring substrate;

a second acceleration sensor mounted on the other one of the first surface and the second surface of the wiring substrate in a state where the second acceleration sensor is rotated 90 degrees with respect to the first acceleration sensor;

an analog-to-digital converter converting an analog signal transmitted from the first acceleration sensor or the second acceleration sensor to a digital signal; and

a central processing unit determining a collision by an arithmetic processing of the digital signal;

wherein

one of the first acceleration sensor and the second acceleration sensor is a uniaxial main sensor and the other one of the first acceleration sensor and the second acceleration sensor is a biaxial safing sensor;

the uniaxial main sensor detects an acceleration in a front-rear direction of the vehicle that is parallel to the first surface and the second surface of the wiring substrate;

the biaxial safing sensor detects accelerations in the front-rear direction and a right-left direction of the vehicle that is parallel to the first surface and the second surface of the wiring substrate;

the biaxial safing sensor is housed in one package in the collision determination apparatus.

2. The collision determination apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a switching resistor enabling both the first acceleration sensor and the second acceleration sensor to be mounted on the same land.