Passive restraining system for motor vehicles and air bag module as restraining element
US6099031A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 4, 1998 |
| Grant date | Aug 8, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 4, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB60R21/01544
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A passive restraining system for motor vehicles, which has at least one crash sensor (10 and 10'), which generates a signal indicating an accident and its severity, and optionally forms a structural unit with the central electronics unit (20). In this, the signal from the crash sensor is evaluated. The system moreover has a number of restraining components such as air bags (30) and belt retractors (40) and position and child seat recognition sensors (50) and seat occupation sensors (60) allocated to these for recognition of the respective actual use status of the vehicle seats (70), and one belt position sensor per vehicle seat. The flexibility of the system is thereby decisively increased in accordance with one solution proposal, in that the individual restraining components receive a content signal from the central electronics unit (20) in the event of an accident to react, whereby the individual restraining components (30, 40) compute their reaction signals themselves in a processor assigned to them as a function of the signals of the sensors and crash sensors respectively allocated to them.
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