Trw Automotive U.S. LLC

Christopher John Hibner

Raymond J David

Chek-Peng Foo

Kevin Daniel Weiss

Nick L Smith

Nikhil Bhaskar Mudaliar

An apparatus () for controlling a vehicle actuatable occupant restraining system including a crash accelerometer () for sensing frontal crash acceleration and providing a first crash acceleration signal indicative thereof. A side crash accelerometer () senses transverse crash acceleration and provides a second crash acceleration signal indicative thereof. A controller () actuates the actuatable occupant restraining system in response to the first crash acceleration signal and the transverse crash acceleration signal.

Method and apparatus for controlling a front actuatable restraining device using side satellite safing sensors

A method () for adjusting the zero point of a vehicle seat weight sensing system () includes the step of determining a zero point error () of the seat weight sensing system. The method () also includes the step of adjusting the zero point error () in response to determining that the zero point error was influenced by an object on the vehicle seat.

System and method for adjusting a zero point of a seat load sensing system

A method () for adjusting a sensed load W(s) of a vehicle seat weight sensing system () includes the step () of determining a rate of change {dot over (W)}(t),{dot over (W)}in the sensed load. The method () also includes the step () of determining the likelihood of drift in the sensed load W(s) in response to the determined rate of change {dot over (W)}(t),{dot over (W)}.

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Canton, MI, United States of America

Christopher John Hibner