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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adam M Janotik, Grosse Ile, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
200 / ; 200 6153 ;
Abstract
An acceleration sensor is provided for electrically activating electrically operated automotive occupant restraints which employs switch contacts arranged in a cylindrical housing to resiliently bias a sensing mass in columnar fashion and collapse to effect contact upon movement of the sensing mass responsive to an acceleration pulse above a predetermined magnitude and duration.