Air bag apparatus for passenger seat

Details Air bag apparatus for passenger seat Air bag apparatus for passenger seat

1996-03-07

1997-12-30

Rice, Kenneth R.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

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B60R 2132

Patent

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057021236

ABSTRACT:
An air bag apparatus for a passenger seat includes: a first sensor for detecting an occupant seated in a passenger seat; a second sensor for detecting a state in which the occupant is approaching an instrument panel excluding a state in which the occupant put out his or her hand(s) on the instrument panel; and a deployment controller for changing the control of deployment of an air bag when the occupant is detected by the first sensor and the state in which the occupant is approaching the instrument panel is detected by the second sensor.

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Automotive Engineering, "Child-seat and occupant-presence detection" vol. 102, 1994 May, No. 5.

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