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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Manfred Held, Aresing, DT;
Johann Spies, Pfaffenhofen, DT;
Assignee:
Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH, Munich, DT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
280735 ; 1801 / ;
Abstract
A safety arrangement for passengers of a moving vehicle includes an inflatable air cushion for maintaining passengers in their seat positions and a plurality of gas generators for inflating the cushion. The cushion is inflatable at different rates depending on vehicle deceleration by the employment of an electrical release circuit. The circuit includes a piezoelectric sensor for providing a signal representative of deceleration, a first threshold value switch, an integrator, a plurality of threshold value switches having different thresholds and a plurality of firing elements for the gas generators.