Occupant protection control system, storage medium storing program, and vehicle
First Claim
1. An occupant protection control system comprising:
- a crash sensing component that senses a crash of a vehicle, including a crash type;
a detecting component that detects a current seat state of a seat whose state can be changed from a predetermined normal state in which the seat faces forward to another state in which the seat does not face forward;
plural types of occupant protection devices that are disposed according to crash type and that protect, according to crash type, an occupant seated in the seat;
a predicting component that predicts a crash of the vehicle;
a changing component that changes the seat state; and
a control component that;
based on a detection result of the detecting component and a sensing result of the crash sensing component, operates at least one first device of the occupant protection devices that is necessary to protect the occupant and prohibits operation of at least one second device of the occupant protection devices that is not necessary to protect the occupant, andin a case where the crash of the vehicle has been predicted by the predicting component and the current seat state is detected to be the other state, and in a case where an angle difference between the detected current seat state and the normal state is a predetermined angle or less and it is possible to complete the change from the detected current seat state to the normal seat state before the predicted crash of the vehicle occurs, further controls the changing component to rotate the seat to change the seat state to the normal state without prohibiting the operation of the at least one second device of the occupant protection devices.
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Abstract
An occupant protection control system that includes: a crash sensing component that senses an occurrence of a crash of a vehicle, including a crash type; a detecting component that detects a current seat state, of a seat whose state can be changed from a normal state; plural types of occupant protection devices that are disposed according to crash type and protect, according to crash type, an occupant seated in the seat; and a control component that, on the basis of a detection result of the detecting component and a sensing result of the crash sensing component, controls the plural types of occupant protection devices in such a way that, among the plural types of occupant protection devices, the control component operates occupant protection devices that are necessary to protect the occupant and prohibits operation of occupant protection devices that are not necessary to protect the occupant.
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12 Claims
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1. An occupant protection control system comprising:
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a crash sensing component that senses a crash of a vehicle, including a crash type; a detecting component that detects a current seat state of a seat whose state can be changed from a predetermined normal state in which the seat faces forward to another state in which the seat does not face forward; plural types of occupant protection devices that are disposed according to crash type and that protect, according to crash type, an occupant seated in the seat; a predicting component that predicts a crash of the vehicle; a changing component that changes the seat state; and a control component that; based on a detection result of the detecting component and a sensing result of the crash sensing component, operates at least one first device of the occupant protection devices that is necessary to protect the occupant and prohibits operation of at least one second device of the occupant protection devices that is not necessary to protect the occupant, and in a case where the crash of the vehicle has been predicted by the predicting component and the current seat state is detected to be the other state, and in a case where an angle difference between the detected current seat state and the normal state is a predetermined angle or less and it is possible to complete the change from the detected current seat state to the normal seat state before the predicted crash of the vehicle occurs, further controls the changing component to rotate the seat to change the seat state to the normal state without prohibiting the operation of the at least one second device of the occupant protection devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 11, 12)
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5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform an occupant protection control process, the process comprising:
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sensing a crash of a vehicle, including a crash type; detecting a current seat state of a seat whose state can be changed from a predetermined normal state in which the seat faces forward to another state in which the seat does not face forward; predicting a crash of the vehicle; based on a result of sensing the crash of the vehicle and a result of detecting the current seat state, operating at least one first device of plural types of occupant protection devices that is necessary to protect an occupant seated in the seat and prohibiting operation of at least one second device of the occupant protection devices that is not necessary to protect the occupant seated in the seat, the plural types of occupant protection devices being disposed according to crash type and protecting, according to crash type, the occupant seated in the seat; and in a case where the crash of the vehicle has been predicted and the current seat state is detected to be the other state, and in a case where an angle difference between the detected current seat state and the normal state is a predetermined angle or less and it is possible to complete the change from the detected current seat state to the normal seat state before the predicted crash of the vehicle occurs, changing the seat state to the normal state by rotating the seat without prohibiting the operation of the at least one second device of the occupant protection devices. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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8. An occupant protection control method, comprising, via a processor:
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sensing a crash of a vehicle including crash type; detecting a current seat state of a seat whose state can be changed from a predetermined normal state in which the seat faces forward to another state in which the seat does not face forward; predicting a crash of the vehicle; based on a result of sensing the crash of the vehicle and a result of detecting the current seat state, operating at least one first device of plural types of occupant protection devices that is necessary to protect an occupant seated in the seat and prohibiting operation of at least one second device of the occupant protection devices that is not necessary to protect the occupant seated in the seat, the plural types of occupant protection devices being disposed according to crash type and protecting, according to crash type, the occupant seated in the seat; and in a case where the crash of the vehicle has been predicted and the current seat state is detected to be the other state, and in a case where an angle difference between the detected current seat state and the normal state is a predetermined angle or less and it is possible to complete the change from the detected current seat state to the normal seat state before the predicted crash of the vehicle occurs, changing the seat state to the normal state by rotating the seat without prohibiting the operation of the at least one second device of the occupant protection devices. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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