Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Home Electronics, Inc.

Snk Corporation

Hiroaki Kimura

Shigeo Tobaru

Shigekazu Matsumoto

Hamao Horiguchi

Kouichi Ishimoto

Kazukuni Hiraoka

Kenta Fujimoto

Junji Kanamoto

Shooting apparatus

The present invention allows accurate determination as to if deformation of a vehicle side part has occurred or not as a result of a side impact even though the used data consists of outputs of acceleration sensors for detecting accelerations given as combinations of deformation of a vehicle side part and a travel of the vehicle body. The device comprises a unit for detecting an acceleration produced in a first part of the vehicle body which moves in response to a deformation of the vehicle side part resulting from a side impact; a unit for detecting an acceleration produced in a second part of the vehicle body which substantially does not move in response to a deformation of the vehicle side part resulting from a side impact; a unit for analyzing frequency components included in a time change of the detected acceleration of the first vehicle body part over a prescribed preceding time period; a unit for analyzing frequency components included in a time change of the detected acceleration of the second vehicle body part over a prescribed preceding time period; and a unit for determining deformation of a vehicle side part resulting from a side impact according to the frequency components obtained by the two analyzing units.

Method and device for determining deformation of a vehicle side part

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroaki Kimura