Inventor · Ann Arbor, MI, US

Chek-Peng Foo

40Patents
16h-index
53Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 22, 1994 → Nov 13, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6600414B2 Apparatus and method for detecting vehicle rollover having a discriminating safing function Performing Operations; Transporting 74 Expired
US6433681B1 Apparatus and method for detecting vehicle rollover having roll-rate switched threshold Performing Operations; Transporting 73 Expired
US6542073B2 System and method for sensing vehicle rollover Performing Operations; Transporting 60 Expired
US6186539A Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable restraint device using crash severity indexing and crush zone sensor Performing Operations; Transporting 59 Expired
US6036225A Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable restraint device using crash severity indexing Performing Operations; Transporting 58 Expired
US5935182A Method and apparatus for discriminating a vehicle crash using virtual sensing Physics 44 Expired
US6341252B1 Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable occupant protection device Performing Operations; Transporting 43 Expired
US6431593B1 Vehicle crash determination arrangement and method, utilizing center of gravity, for an occupant protection system Performing Operations; Transporting 42 Expired
US5746444A Method and apparatus for single point sensing of front and side impact crash conditions Performing Operations; Transporting 37 Expired
US6095554A Method and apparatus for sensing side impact crash conditions with an enhanced safing function Performing Operations; Transporting 36 Expired
US6416080B1 Apparatus and method for protecting a vehicle occupant utilizing a correlation between an occupant-associated center and a distance to an occupant-associated surface Performing Operations; Transporting 33 Expired
US6529810B2 Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable restraining device using switched thresholds based on transverse acceleration Performing Operations; Transporting 31 Expired
US5758899A Method and apparatus for providing a safing function for side impact crash sensing systems Performing Operations; Transporting 26 Expired
US6549836B1 Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable restraint device using a velocity/displacement based safing function with immunity box Performing Operations; Transporting 25 Expired
US5702124A Method and apparatus for sensing a vehicle crash using a displacement velocity metric Performing Operations; Transporting 24 Expired
US5826902A Method and apparatus for sensing impact crash conditions with safing function Performing Operations; Transporting 21 Expired
US7359781B2 Method and apparatus for determining symmetric and asymmetric crash events with improved misuse margins Performing Operations; Transporting 12 Expired
US6776435B2 Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable restraining device using switched thresholds based on crush zone sensors Performing Operations; Transporting 12 Expired
US6459366B1 System and method for controlling an actuatable occupant protection device Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Expired
US6520536B2 Method and apparatus for controlling an occupant side restraining device with enhanced side safing function Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Expired
US6810133B2 Occupant sensing system and method via imaging Physics 7 Expired
US6439007B1 Enhanced occupant spring mass model for use with an actuatable restraint system including compensating for monotonicity of misuse conditions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US5692775A Method and apparatus for controlling an occupant restraint system in response to selected criteria zone Performing Operations; Transporting 6 Expired
US7840325B2 Method and apparatus for controlling a front actuatable restraining device using side satellite safing sensors Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Active
US6212454A Method and apparatus for disabling an actuatable restraint based on determined crash velocity and displacement Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.