Device for sensing an object or a person in the interior of a vehicle and method for operating such a device

US6313739A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Christoph Roth · Bodenwerder, DE
• Alexander Waldmann · Regensburg, DE
• Reinhard Hamperl · Altötting, DE
• Thomas Stierle · Regensburg, DE
• Reinhard Roesl · Wenzenbach, DE
• Gerhard Mader · Thalmässing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 25, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 6, 2001
• Expiry date: Feb 25, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S7/4972
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A sensor which is installed in a vehicle, for sensing an object or a person, is operated for adjustment purposes in a test mode. The installation position of the sensor or of the device in the vehicle is changed with an adjustment device as a function of the evaluation of the test data which are determined. Alternatively, or in addition, a message can be issued as a function of the result of the evaluation. The invention ensures that the device is installed at a precise location in the vehicle and the position of vehicle occupants is thus determined precisely.