Device and method for sensing an object or a person in the interior of a vehicle and vehicle occupant protection apparatus in a vehicle with such a device

US6773029B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 27, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 10, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 27, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R21/01534
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Objects of persons in a vehicle are detected with a sensor. The data of the sensor signal or evaluated sensor data are transmitted to a remote control unit for an occupant protection system. The sensor data are in addition stored in a device comprising the sensor if the control unit indicates that an impact has been recognized.