Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Zf Active Safety and Electronics US LLC

Kyeora Lee

Charles Anthony Bartlett

Kiran Balasubramanian

Raymond J David

Huahn Fern Yeh

Michal Duchowski

Masashi Nagai

Pawel Koziel

Kim Kyoungwang

Yuxiao Wu

Sonia Gupta

A method for controlling an actuatable safety device for protecting an occupant of a vehicle includes utilizing an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) to determine that a vehicle collision is impending. In response to determining the existence of an impending vehicle collision, a mass spring damper model uses sensed vehicle longitudinal acceleration (IMU_X) to estimate the occupant movement that will result from the impending vehicle collision. The estimated occupant movement is used to determine how to control deployment of an actuatable safety device in response to the crash.

System and method for estimating occupant movement in response to automatic emergency braking

A vehicle safety system for helping to protect a pedestrian in the event of a vehicle frontal collision with the pedestrian includes a plurality of crash sensors for sensing a vehicle frontal collision, an actuatable pedestrian protection device, a controller for controlling actuation of the pedestrian protection device, and at least one active sensor for determining the presence of a pedestrian in the path of the vehicle.

Passive pedestrian protection system utilizing inputs from active safety system

A method for controlling an actuatable restraining device includes sensing a plurality of crash event indications in response to a crash event. The method also includes classifying the crash event in response to comparing the sensed crash event indications against one another to identify an oblique moving deformable barrier crash event. The method further includes controlling deployment timing of the actuatable restraining device in response to the classification of the crash event.

Enhanced discrimination method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable restraining device

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