Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Vehicle subsystem or accessory control
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-26
2008-08-19
Black, Thomas G. (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Vehicle subsystem or accessory control
C340S436000, C180S274000, C280S734000, C280S735000, C701S301000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07415337
ABSTRACT:
The collision of a vehicle with a pedestrian is detected based on the response of bend sensor segments affixed to a vehicle body panel such as a bumper fascia. The sensor data is processed to identify the location of an object impacting the body panel, and is correlated with calibration data to determine the shape and mass of the object. Impacts with pedestrians are discriminated from impacts with other objects based on the determined shape and mass.
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European Search Report dated Nov. 22, 2006.
Hau Lawrence C.
Kincaid Kevin D.
Black Thomas G.
Delphi Technologies Inc.
Fekete Douglas D.
Louie Wae
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