Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Keiichi Yanai

Atsushi Kobayashi

Keiichi Kondo

Kenji Maeta

Naoka Kawajiri

Kento Aoki

Wataru Otake

Kosuke Kito

Setsu Takuma

Hiromi Kondo

Shunsuke Nagai

Yoshihiro Mizokawa

A seat occupancy sensor includes: a first sensor group having a plurality of first sensor cells that are arrayed in a front-rear direction of a seat and become conductive as a load is applied thereto; a second sensor group having a plurality of second sensor cells that are arrayed in the front-rear direction, farther on a front side of the seat and closer to an end of the seat in a width direction than the first sensor group, and that become conductive as a load is applied thereto; and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit determines that someone is sitting on the seat when both of at least one of the first sensor cells and at least one of the second sensor cells become conductive.

Seat occupancy sensor having an array of sensors shifted from a center of a seat of a vehicle

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