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Air bag operation device

US5422965A · kind A · utility

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25Claims
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Filing dateFeb 12, 1993
Grant dateJun 6, 1995
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Expiry dateFeb 12, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01P21/00
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An air bag operation device which employs only one CPU module to guarantee sufficient fail-safety in the operation of the air bag without increasing the scale of the hardware. A plurality of crash-discriminating programs of different versions and a plurality of self-diagnosing programs of different versions are executed by a single CPU module, a signal is fed to an air bag igniting device based upon a comparison of the discriminated results by the plurality of crash-discriminating programs, and a signal is fed to an abnormality alarm device based upon comparison of the discriminated results of the plurality of self-diagnosing programs.

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