B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – R
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
R
B60R 21/01 (2006.01) B60R 21/32 (1995.01)
Patent
CA 2150921
A system (10) and method for actuating a vehicle air bag (38) uses an optical detector (12) to generate an output (22) representative of tbe distance between a vehicle occupant and a fixed structure within the vehicle. The output (22) is subsequently used by a signal processor/discrimination unit (26) to generate data representative of actual occupant conditions, such as transitory occupant position, velocity and/or acceleration. The occupant condition data is used to select the temporally optimal one of a plurality of different predetermined parameter-based crash discrimination strategies (R,S,T,X,Y,Z;), and perhaps further used as a decisional criterion in at least one strategy. Each strategy employs different decisional criteria to provide a different range of actual times to fire. The different decisional criteria of the available strategies may be the result of uniquely-different parameter-based crash discrimination or otherwise-identical parameter-based algorithms employing different thresholds, or both. The air bag is actuated when the decisional criteria of the selected strategy are satisfied to generate an actual time to fire. The present system and method thus optimize crash discrimination analysis by customizing the analysis in real time to match actual rather than assumed occupant conditions.
Gillis Edward J.
Gioutsos Tony
Automotive Systems Laboratory Inc.
Macrae & Co.
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