Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Imai Katsuji

Motomi Iyoda

Yujiro Miyata

Tomoki Nagao

Satellite sensors () that output level signals corresponding to an impact on a vehicle () are provided right and left portions of a forward portion of the vehicle (), separately from a floor sensor (). If a map (Lo, Lo, Lo, Hi) selected as a threshold changing pattern from an impact (deceleration) detected based on the output signal of one of the satellite sensors () and a map (Lo, Lo, Lo, Hi) selected as a threshold changing pattern from an impact (deceleration) detected based on the output signal of the other satellite sensor are different from each other, the map of a smaller threshold is selected from the maps based on the output signals of the two satellite sensors (), and is set as a threshold changing pattern for determining whether to activate an airbag apparatus ().

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Nagoya, Japan

Imai Katsuji