Volkswagen Ag

Volkswagen Aktiengesellscaft

Andre Leschke

Torsten Strutz

Peter Baumann

Ulrich Hackenberg

Thorsten Gaas

Jörg Winkler

Florian Weinert

André Zander

Ricardo Ploeger

Ricardo PLÖGER

Robert Zobel

A method for an early accident detection in transportation vehicles that includes recording the local acceleration at different distributed locations in a transportation vehicle using acceleration sensors installed at different locations; ascertaining local effect information for the different locations based on the measured accelerations; jointly evaluating the effect information for the different locations and deriving accident information, and outputting the accident information. The method includes an apparatus having acceleration sensors installed at different distributed installation locations in a transportation vehicle for recording the local acceleration at the respective installation location, one or more processing circuits for ascertaining in each case local effect information for the different installation locations based on the respectively measured local acceleration, and an evaluation device for jointly evaluating the effect information for the different installation locations and deriving accident information and outputting the accident information.

Method and device for early accident detection

A pedestrian protection system for a vehicle, having at least one impact-detecting sensor and a deformable element that are arranged between a cross-member and a bumper cover of the vehicle, and a control unit that analyzes the signals of the at least one sensor. In order to reduce the amount of space required, the deformable element is designed as a deformable member that it has a cavity in which the at least one sensor is arranged and detects changes in an electromagnetic field in the cavity.

Pedestrian protection system for a vehicle

A belt buckle for a motor vehicle is provided wherein, through the use of the belt buckle, a tongue of a seat belt is mechanically receivable and, through the use of a switch, an insertion status of the tongue is detectable. A device is assigned to the switch through the use of which the switch position of the switch is wirelessly communicable to a receiver circuit.

Belt buckle for a motor vehicle

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Wolfsburg, Germany

Andre Leschke