Air bag controlling apparatus

Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment

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280731, 340436, B60R 2132

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053820495

ABSTRACT:
An air bag controlling apparatus for controlling inflation of an air bag for a motor vehicle and adapted to cooperate with (i) an inflator which provides said air bag with compressed gas when ignited by an igniter, and (ii) an acceleration sensor which generates an appropriate deceleration signal as a function of the vehicle's deceleration. The apparatus comprises a threshold value storage for storing a threshold value used in determining whether the inflator will be ignited and a calculator for calculating a displacement amount of the vehicle. A waveform evaluator evaluates the waveform of the deceleration signal to determine whether an initial period for which the deceleration has a positive value continues for a predetermined interval of time after a predetermined deceleration is detected. A threshold value corrector corrects the threshold value stored in the threshold value storage when the waveform evaluator determines that the initial period for which the deceleration has a positive value has continued for the predetermined interval of time. A discriminator determines whether the displacement amount calculated by the calculating means is greater than the corrected threshold value. Finally, a signal output generator outputs the ignition signal to the inflator so that the inflator is ignited and the air bag is inflated when the discriminator determines that the displacement amount calculated by the calculator is greater than the corrected threshold value.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4497025 (1985-01-01), Hannoyer
patent: 5014810 (1991-05-01), Mattes et al.
patent: 5068793 (1991-11-01), Condne et al.

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