Configuration for controlling an occupant restraint device in a motor vehicle

US6256563A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Blank · Regensburg, DE
• Gerhard Mader · Thalmässing, DE
• Richard Vogt · Kehl, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 1999
• Grant date: Jul 3, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 8, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/01325
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A configuration for controlling an occupant restraint device of a motor vehicle. The occupant restraint device is activated only whenever it is ascertained, by an evaluator, that simultaneously a signal of a first acceleration sensor and a signal of a second acceleration sensor indicate a collision. The sensitivity axes of the acceleration sensors are oriented differently.