System for measuring parameters related to automobile seat

Details System for measuring parameters related to automobile seat System for measuring parameters related to automobile seat

1997-10-08

2000-01-18

Dickson, Paul N.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

280731, 340667, B60R 2132

Patent

active

060151633

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle has a seat configured to receive a person or object. An array of flexible potentiometers is positioned in the seat to sense the mass or weight and the footprint or profile of that which is in the seat. The flexible potentiometers supply a signal through circuitry to enable or disable an air bag system in the vehicle. The air bag system operates under selected conditions such as what may be experienced in a crash of the vehicle to deploy the air bag to preclude movement of a seat occupant into vehicle structure.

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