Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-28
2008-11-04
To, Toan C (Department: 3616)
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
C280S734000, C701S045000, C180S271000, C002S456000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07445235
ABSTRACT:
To prevent an air bag from being operated by mere inclination when the vehicle body does not fall down, that is, at the time of handling during a banking operation or the like. An air bag and a removal detecting part for detecting a rider removal from a vehicle body are incorporated in a rider jacket. An inclination sensor for detecting an inclination of the vehicle body of a motorcycle is provided. An angle acceleration calculating part for calculating the inclination angle acceleration of the vehicle body calculates the inclination angle acceleration based on a plurality of detected inclination angles. When the state of the vehicle body falls within the air bag operable range, an air bag deploying instruction is outputted. The air bag deploying instruction is supplied to the air bag when the rider removal from the vehicle body is not detected by the removal detecting part.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4059852 (1977-11-01), Crane
patent: 4825469 (1989-05-01), Kincheloe
patent: 5593111 (1997-01-01), Jackson et al.
patent: 5746442 (1998-05-01), Hoyaukin
patent: 6097287 (2000-08-01), Lu
patent: 6125478 (2000-10-01), Alaloof
patent: 6766535 (2004-07-01), Duhamell et al.
patent: 6783153 (2004-08-01), Mattes
patent: 6908103 (2005-06-01), Umeda et al.
patent: 7380291 (2008-06-01), Hashash
patent: 2007/0061941 (2007-03-01), Makabe et al.
patent: 2007/0075528 (2007-04-01), Makabe et al.
Makabe Takumi
Nagatsuyu Toshiya
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
To Toan C
LandOfFree
Air bag device does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Air bag device, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Air bag device will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4034309