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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105241 | WEIGHT BASED VEHICLE SEAT OCCUPANT DETECTION DEVICE WITH COMPENSATION FOR SEAT ORIENTATION ANGLE A weight based occupant detection device that includes a weight sensing device installed in a vehicle seat in a manner effective to sense weight on a seating surface. The weight sensing device is configured to output a weight signal indicative of an occupant weight of a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20110137520 | Devices, Systems and Methods for Controlling Permitted Settings on a Vehicle Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for altering permitted settings of a vehicle according to a driver identified through short range wireless communication. The vehicle captures a unique identifier from a wireless communication device of the driver of the vehic... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20100315251 | Capacitive passenger detector for vehicle A capacitive passenger detector includes: a capacitive sensor having main, sub and guard electrodes; a sensor characteristic measurement unit for applying an alternating voltage signal to each electrode and for converting a current in each electrode to a voltage; and a ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100295695 | AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE WITH OCCUPANT DETECTION SYSTEM An automotive vehicle has arranged therein a vehicle seat and is equipped with an occupant detection system for detecting whether an occupant is present on the vehicle seat, the system including a first antenna electrode arranged in the seat and a sensing circuit associ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100207756 | Child Seat Check Fixture Disclosed herein are embodiments of a check fixture for measuring the accessibility of a lower car seat anchor to a user installing a car seat, and methods thereof. One embodiment of a check fixture comprises a body having a rear end and a front end, the body defining a... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100207773 | Seat having occupant detecting function and occupant detection device A seat has an occupant detecting function and is installed in a vehicle. The seat includes a seating portion, a capacitance sensor, a controller, and a supporting member. The seating portion is adapted to support buttocks and thighs of an occupant of the vehicle. The se... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100188242 | AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE WITH SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THE PROXIMITY OF AN OCCUPANT An automotive vehicle has arranged therein a vehicle seat and is equipped with an occupant detection system for detecting whether an occupant is present on the vehicle seat, the system including a first antenna electrode arranged in the seat and a first sensing circuit ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100085202 | SENSOR DRIVE CONTROL METHOD AND SENSOR-EQUIPPED RADIO TERMINAL DEVICE A network system including: a first sensor device which includes a first sensor unit which detects an action of a detection object; and a first transmission unit which transmits first data regarding the action and first identification information to a server via a first... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100073181 | Electrostatic occupant detecting apparatus and method of adjusting electrostatic occupant detecting apparatus In a method of adjusting an electrostatic occupant detecting apparatus, a first group of load circuits is coupled with a sensor property measuring device, an AC voltage signal is applied from a signal source to the first group of load circuits, and a potential differenc... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100001871 | COMMUNICATION ANOMALY DETECTING DEVICE, AND PASSENGER DETECTING DEVICE An information request portion receives an information request signal transmitted to an information response portion at its own receiving port. The information request portion comprises at least either a power supply system anomaly determination portion or a ground anom... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090295554 | Occupant Seat Detection System and Method An occupant system includes a sensing device disposed in a seat and an electronic device configured to acquire data from the sensing device. The electronic device includes a system controller which uses that data to determine an appropriate system response. Data is acqu... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090295557 | Seat Belt Warning System A safety belt warning system for vehicles comprises a sensor mat for the detection of a force acting on its surface, which includes, for the formation of two electrical capacitors, two dielectric layers which are located one above the other in sandwich fashion and arran... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090273484 | DEVICE FOR VEHICLE SEAT OCCUPANCY DETECTION Device for vehicle seat occupancy detection, wherein a base frame which can be adjusted in the height direction of a vehicle seat and which is composed of at least two scissors arms which are connected to one another is arranged between a seat part of the vehicle seat a... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090201163 | CHILD SEAT SENSOR A child seat sensor (10) comprises at least one antenna structure (22, 24, 26) to be integrated into a vehicle seat (26). The at least one antenna structure (22, 24, 26) comprises at least one antenna wire for emitting and/or receiving an ele... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090179764 | Device For Detecting Passenger's Weight In Vehicle The passenger weight detection device includes a sensor body including a center hole, fixing holes formed on the center hole, and a mounting recess formed in the sensor body to mount a diaphragm. Additionally, a semiconductor strain gauge is attached to the diaphragm an... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090128349 | Occupant detection system An occupant detection system for a vehicle includes an antenna arrangement of a capacitance-based occupant detection device in particular provided beneath the seat surface of a vehicle seat for the generation of a first occupation signal in the event of occupation of th... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090066530 | Method and Device for Recognition of the Seat Occupancy of a Seat The recognition of seat occupancy of a seat is achieved by recording at least one measured signal by way of a seat occupancy sensor. The measured signal is allocated a weight signal by way of an allocation rule, which is representative of a weight with which the seat is... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090027221 | SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE WEIGHT AND/OR POSITION OF A SEAT OCCUPANT A sensor system for determining the weight and/or position of a seat occupant, comprising at least two spaced-apart weight force sensors which provide measured weight force signals, and a control device which generates a signal characterising the weight and/or the posit... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090021386 | CUSHION DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS The cushion device mainly contains a flat body member containing a pad on top of a base. The base has an indentation on a top side for accommodating a pressure activation member. The pressure activation member contains a first disc resiliently supported on a top side of... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090008377 | Occupant sensing heat mat A seat heating and occupant sensing assembly including a mat having a plurality of heat sources disposed therein. A power supply supplies power to the heat sources. The assembly further includes a controller in communication with a signal generator. The signal generator... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080211684 | Office Components, Seating Structures, Methods of Using Seating Structures, And Systems of Seating Structures Office components are described that include a base, a seat supported by the base. a microprocessor, and a load sensor electrically coupled with the microprocessor and mechanically coupled with the seat and, based on movement thereof, operative to detect occupancy of th... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080204263 | Device and Method for Detecting Seat Occupancy A device and a method for detecting seat occupancy, with the device including first and second sensor elements associated with a respective seat surface. First and second weight-dependent sensor signals are electrically obtainable from the sensor elements. The seat occu... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080204264 | OCCUPANT DETECTING APPARATUS An occupant detecting apparatus includes a detecting portion detecting whether an occupant is seated on a seat, and a judging portion judging whether the occupant occupies the seat on the basis of information detected by the detecting portion. The judging portion judges... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080204211 | Method for establishing the occupation of a vehicle seat The invention relates to a method for differentiating between people and other objects on vehicle seats, by recording and evaluating the pressure distribution caused on the seat by said people and objects, the mean deviation of the signal at a certain position in relati... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080186192 | Double-electrode capacitive sensor, passenger detector, and passenger protection system A double-electrode capacitive sensor for detecting a detection object includes: an electrode assembly having first and second electrodes and an insulation substrate; and a detection circuit. The first and second electrodes are disposed on first and second surfaces of th... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080161158 | SHIFT MAP SWITCHING CONTROL UNIT A controller selects a shift map for deriving the shift timing of an automatic transmission according to output signals from a front seat seating sensor, a pillion seating sensor and a carrier loading sensor. The controller switches the shift map of a standard type to a... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080143544 | Infant safety seat and alarm systems An infant weight-responsive safety seat for using within a motor vehicle is provided. The said infant seat may be integrated as part of an infant detection system that is able of warning the exiting driver the presence of an infant or child left behind within the infant... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080129026 | Apparatus and method for sensing displacement A displacement sensor (12) having an elongated member (128) having a conical shaped bellows portion (132) collapsible in response to applied force along an axis (116) of the elongated member. A sensor (126, 142) is located within the b... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080122644 | Seat sensor A seat sensor for a vehicle seat having a seat face portion includes a plurality of sensor cells. One of two electrodes of each sensor cell contacts an other one of the two electrodes to make the each of the plurality of sensor cells become electrically conductive when ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080122645 | Seat sensor A seat sensor for detecting that an occupant is seated on a vehicle seat having a back rest portion includes a sensor cell. The sensor cell is disposed on the back rest portion of the vehicle seat. The sensor cell has a plurality of electrodes that are arranged to face ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080083290 | Force Sensing Device A force sensing device has a monolithic metal housing with a rigid upper housing part and a rigid lower housing part, which are interconnected via U-shaped spring elements while being movable in a springy manner towards each other along an axis of movement when a force ... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080068194 | SENSOR DRIVE CONTROL METHOD AND SENSOR-EQUIPPED RADIO TERMINAL DEVICE A sensor device wherein when a first sensor detects a detection object, the first sensor changes its output voltage level, and when the processor unit detects the change of the output voltage level of the first sensor as an interrupt signal, the drive voltage level of t... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080061989 | Communication Anomaly Detecting Device, and Passenger Detecting Device An information request portion receives an information request signal transmitted to an information response portion at its own receiving port. The information request portion comprises at least either of a power supply system anomaly determination portion or a ground a... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080036252 | Vehicular Seats with Fluid-Containing Weight Sensing Sysem System and method for measuring the weight of an occupant in a vehicle seat and for controlling a safety restraint system responsive thereto includes at least one fluid-containing structure arranged mounted within or beneath an upper surface of a bottom portion of the s... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080024316 | Seat Folding Apparatus with a Passive Radio Frequency Link and Foreign Object Detection System A seat folding apparatus is provided with a passive Rf frequency link that requires that a person be within a certain limited distance from the vehicle to operate the seat folding mechanism. A foreign object detection system, such as a plurality of weight sensors, is pr... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080001565 | Vehicle rearmost seat control system A vehicle-side device receives a response signal transmitted from an electronic key carried by a user and executes a matching process to check whether the key is an authorized one. When the matching is confirmed and the operation of a sensor/switch disposed on a door is... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070296254 | CHILD SEAT SAFETY SYSTEM The present invention comprises an infant carrier and a mating base which combine to form an infant carrier/car seat combination. The infant carrier has a seat belt system within it to properly secure the infant. When the infant carrier is attached to the base, and the ... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070285268 | Seat occupancy sensor A seat occupancy sensor has at least two pressure-activatable switch elements, which are assigned to two areas of a seat and are spaced a distance apart from one another and connected in a logic AND operation arrangement. An electric resistance element is connected in p... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070235243 | Seatbelt minder A vehicle seat sensing system is provided for detecting a presence of an unrestrained vehicle occupant on a vehicle seat cushion. A plurality of sensor assemblies are in spaced relation to one another and disposed adjacent a lower surface of said vehicle seat cushion. E... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070200721 | Occupant classification system The disclosed capacitance sensing apparatus may be used in an occupant classification system. The sensing apparatus may comprise a sensor pad, a sensing element disposed on the sensor pad for sensing capacitive current, at least one additional electronic element dispose... | 08/30/2007 |
