Collision determining device

Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Vehicle subsystem or accessory control

Reexamination Certificate

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ABSTRACT:
Satellite sensors are disposed in both sidewalls of a vehicle; each of the satellite sensors detects as an acceleration a collision of an obstruction with the corresponding sidewall. A floor G sensor is disposed in a central portion of the vehicle for detecting as an acceleration a collision of an obstruction with either of both the sidewalls. A two-dimensional correlational map is produced to have two parameters of an acceleration detected by the satellite sensor and speed variation derived from an acceleration detected by the floor G sensor. A collision determining threshold line is set on the correlational map. When a tracking line crosses the threshold line from the side containing the original point to the other side, a collision occurrence of a given pattern requiring activation of an occupant protection device is determined.

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patent: 6005479 (1999-12-01), Ide
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patent: 2005/0006885 (2005-01-01), Link et al.
patent: 2005/0055146 (2005-03-01), Ide
Office Action issued from French Patent Office issued on Nov. 15, 2005 for the corresponding French patent application No. 2003-314693 (a copy and English translation thereof).

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