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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7774116 | Device and method for controlling a passenger protection system of a vehicle A device for controlling a passenger protection system of a motor vehicle includes at least one structure-borne noise sensor, used to receive body vibrations, and an evaluation device, used to evaluate the structure-borne noise signal. The evaluation provides inform... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7643921 | Clipped sensor data estimator A method of estimating values beyond sensor limits accurately and simply includes the initial step of determining an actual slope utilizing measured data. An estimated slope is then determined as a percentage of the actual slope to provide an estimation of data valu... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7444218 | Vehicle occupant protection system A vehicle occupant protection system includes a plurality of satellite sensors, a control unit, and a plurality of bus lines. The satellite sensors detect a vehicle condition in a vehicle collision or a rollover event. The control unit determines an occurrence of th... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7426430 | Control unit for activating an occupant protection means in a motor vehicle and method for monitoring the proper functioning of a control unit preferably of this type The invention relates to a control unit for activating an occupant protection means in a motor vehicle and to a method for monitoring the proper functioning of a control unit preferably of this type. To this end, the control unit comprises a first and a second arith... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7406376 | Passive safety system and determination device A determination device includes a single acceleration sensor for measuring an acceleration of a vehicle and a determination circuit for determining severity of a collision in an accident. A plastic deformation pulse detection section and an elastic deformation pulse... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403131 | Power tool movement monitor and operating system A power tool movement monitor system including a first accelerometer operatively configured to sense movement along a first axis of a power tool and a first high pass filter operatively connected to the output of the first accelerometer. The first high pass filter h... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400641 | Bus master for a bus for connection of sensors and/or ignition means A bus master for a bus for connection of sensors and/or an ignition means device, which has at least two bus driver arrangements allowing data to be received independently of one another. For this purpose a polling operation, specifically using a multiplexer or a de... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395896 | Impact absorption device for vehicles It is important to recognize the severity of an accident more accurately and reliably. To do so, the present invention consists of installing a compression element (25) that can be compressed reversibly into an impact absorption device (2) in order to ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7370883 | Three dimensional occupant position sensor A roof-mounted sensor includes two rows of intersecting electrodes that are placed across an area of the vehicle's roof and a method to determine the position and motion of an occupant. This is accomplished by measuring physical values, which depend on the distance ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359779 | Method for the evaluation of the mounting location of an acceleration sensor component in a vehicle Method for the evaluating of an installation location of an acceleration sensor assembly in a vehicle with respect to the transmission characteristics to this installation location of acceleration impulses acting on the vehicle, with a following serially-connected e... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327236 | Method and device for recognizing a collision The invention relates to a method and to a device for recognizing a collision, especially a side impact, for passenger protection means in a motor vehicle. The invention describes a method, especially in the case of side impact events, which differentiates between n... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321306 | Wireless system to detect presence of child in a baby car seat A wireless system that detects the presence of a child in a safety seat located in the passenger cabin of a vehicle includes a controller responsive to signals generated by sensors monitoring predefined functions of the vehicle, RFID tag device attached to the safet... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7278657 | Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable occupant protection device using an ultrasonic sensor A system (10) for helping to protect a vehicle occupant includes a crash sensor (32) operative to sense a vehicle crash event and provide a crash signal having a characteristic indicative of the sensed crash event. An acoustic safing sensor (34)... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7273229 | Apparatus for driving on-vehicle occupant-protecting airbag device An apparatus for driving an occupant-protecting airbag device mounted on a vehicle is provided. The airbag device includes an airbag and a squib and the squib can be deployed by igniting the squib. The apparatus comprise plural sensors, plural A/D converters, a dete... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272480 | Method for recognising a collision by means of an upfront sensor system and device for carrying out said method An apparatus for detecting impact of a moving object, in particular of a vehicle, having a first sensor device for acquiring an acceleration in a direction of motion of the moving object, an evaluation device for evaluating the first acceleration signal, and at leas... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266453 | Vehicular object detection system, tracking control system, and vehicle control system An ACC system includes a radar device for detecting an object in front of a subject vehicle, locus estimator for estimating a travel locus of the subject vehicle, detection area setter for setting a predetermined detection area in front of the subject vehicle based ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7233234 | Airbag electrical control unit An airbag electrical control unit mounted in a vehicle includes a position detecting circuit that detects a current position of the vehicle; a computing circuit that computes impact that the vehicle undergoes using a signal from a sensor; and a notifying circuit tha... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233235 | Apparatus and method for using vehicle status information in safety restraint systems Method and devices for disabling detection of a safety system activation condition. One embodiment of the invention provides a method that includes disregarding information from a first set of sensors when detection of a safety system activation condition is disable... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233239 | Method and apparatus for detecting improper installation of child seat in a vehicle A method and apparatus for detecting an improperly installed auxiliary child seat of the type that is secured in a motor vehicle by the seatbelt, and providing an alert to a vehicle operator in the case of improper installation. A seat occupancy sensor, a seatbelt b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7219923 | Device for determining kind of load on seat, seat, and bio-signal detector There is provided a bio-signal detector to detect a heart rate and a respiratory rate so that the determination of a kind of a seat load placed on a seat can be made. That is, whether the seat load is a human or an object is determined, and if it is the human, then ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209819 | Drive circuit for a firing cap of a vehicle restraint system A drive circuit for a firing cap, triggerable by an electric direct current firing pulse, of a vehicle restraint system, has a firing circuit which forms a series connection of a high side switch to the firing cap and to a low side switch. The firing circuit is conn... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206680 | Method for determining a decision for the triggering of restraint means in a vehicle A method of determining a triggering decision for restraint devices in a vehicle, a triggering decision being determined as a function of a float angle, a vehicle sliding velocity and the vehicle tilt angle. The vehicle tilt angle is characterized here by a vehicle ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206679 | Reconfigurable methodology for event detection in a motor vehicle A reconfigurable rollover event detection methodology utilizes an existing body of vehicle sensor data. A number of different algorithms or look-up modules develop rollover detection outputs based on different sets of sensor data, and a meta-algorithm combines the v... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197180 | System or method for selecting classifier attribute types A system or method (collectively “selection system”) is disclosed for selecting attributes for a classifier in a sensor system. The selection system selects attribute types using statistical distributions of the attribute values associated with those attribute t... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191045 | Method for determining a trigger time for restraint means in a vehicle A method for determining the trigger time for restraint means in a vehicle is provided, where, by forming two time windows for the speed reduction in a crash, the slope of the speed reduction in the respective time windows and the position of the time windows are de... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7164979 | Data transmission system and occupant protection device A G sensor 31 generates a measuring value by measuring an impact acceleration applied to a vehicle. An A/D converter 32 converts the measuring value into a digital value with a resolution of K bits. A transmission interface 33 compresses the dig... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158016 | Crash notification system for an automotive vehicle A crash notification system (12) for an automotive vehicle (10) is used to communicate with a communication network (22) and ultimately to a response center (24). The system (12) within vehicle (10) includes an occupant sens... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158017 | Method for controlling a safety system in a vehicle In a method for controlling a safety system in a vehicle, wherein an output signal of at least one impact sensor is subjected to frequency analysis in an evaluation unit which is integrated into an electronic control unit, the frequency analysis is performed in at l... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151452 | Vehicle occupant sensing system A vehicle occupancy sensing system provides a mechanism for determining whether a child is present in a vehicle. The sensing system may determine that an occupied front or rear facing child seat is present in an automobile, for example. To that end, the sensing syst... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150469 | Method for controlling gas pressure of a passenger-side airbag A method for controlling gas pressure for inflating a passenger-side frontal airbag in a vehicle comprises a determination of the type and number of passengers in the passenger seat and a determination of the nature and severity of the impact. When at least one pass... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7137472 | Collision detecting device and passive safety system A collision detecting device providing the accurate and early determination of a collision with a vehicle or the like and a passive safety system using this collision detecting device. A low-rigid portion and a crash box are arranged ahead of the high-rigid portion ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135983 | Occupant presence detection device The purpose of this invention is to sense the presence of a seated occupant in a vehicle such as an automobile, plane, train or bus, or in a room or location where it is desirable to detect if seats are occupied. The occupant presence detection device consists of a ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127338 | Method for testing the influence of electromagnetic energy on a vehicle safety system during a crash event A vehicle safety system testing method provides an indication of how the safety system responds during a crash event while the system is exposed to electromagnetic energy. The system is exposed to electromagnetic energy to obtain EMI data indicating the system perfo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120526 | Method of discriminating object on seat A method of discriminating the state of an object on a vehicle seat. The method includes taking samples of a signal indicative of seat load. It is provisionally determined that the object is in a second state if the seat load exceeds a first threshold, and it is pro... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116800 | Image segmentation system and method The present invention relates in general to systems used to process images. In particular, the present invention is an image segmentation system and method used to isolate the segmented image of a target person, animal, or object from an ambient image which includes... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113856 | Method for the classification of an occupancy status of a vehicle seat A method for classifying an occupancy status of a vehicle seat includes associating a filtered class to a specific seat occupancy status based on a plurality of successive readings of at least one parameter value of a seat occupancy sensor, including the steps of: 1... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102494 | Apparatus and method for enhanced data communications and control between a vehicle and a remote data communications terminal An apparatus and methods for enhanced data communications and control between a vehicle and a remote data communications terminal are disclosed. The apparatus preferably includes a first protocol converter adapted to be positioned in communication with at least one ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103454 | Process for recognizing the movement of a motor vehicle A process and system are provided for recognizing the movement of a motor vehicle as well as a process for using an acceleration sensor in a device for blocking the starting of a motor vehicle. Reliable information is obtained on whether or not the motor vehicle was... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099796 | Multi-sensor information fusion technique The invention is a method and system for aggregating quantitative data and qualitative information from a plurality of sensors, each sensor having a plurality of associated sensor uncertainties, to determine the most likely position of an object and an associated pr... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098674 | Occupant sensor An oscillatory or pulsed first signal is operatively coupled to a first electrode placed between a conductive heating element and a seating region of a seat containing the heating element. A second signal substantially equal to the first signal is operatively couple... | 08/29/2006 |
