Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-29
2006-08-29
Culbreth, Eric (Department: 3616)
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
C280S735000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07097201
ABSTRACT:
Vehicle including an occupant protection apparatus for protecting an occupant during an impact into a side of the vehicle, and a side impact, electronic crash sensor assembly for detecting impact into the side of the vehicle and controlling the occupant protection apparatus responsive to the detected impact. The sensor assembly includes a sensor housing arranged in a door or between inner and outer side panels along a side of the vehicle, a movable sensing mass arranged within and movable in the lateral direction relative to the sensor housing in response to lateral accelerations thereof, a micro-processor containing an algorithm which generates a time-varying signal representative of lateral movement of the mass, analyzes the signal and generates a deployment signal based thereon, and a control unit for receiving the deployment signal from the micro-processor and controlling deployment of the occupant protection apparatus based thereon.
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Breed David S.
Castelli Vittorio
Pruszenski, Jr. Anthony S.
Automotive Technologies International Inc.
Culbreth Eric
Roffe Brian
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