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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1994
Tony Gioutsos, Brighton, MI (US);
Michael A Piskie, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Daniel N Tabar, Troy, MI (US);
Automotive Systems Laboratory, Inc., Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
In a system and method for controlling actuation of a vehicle passenger safety device, wherein a first time-varying measure m.sub.1 (t), itself a function of received vehicle acceleration information, is accumulated to obtain a second time-varying measure m.sub.2 (t) for subsequent comparison with a threshold value therefor, the first measure m.sub.1 (t) is 'damped' prior to accumulation by subtracting therefrom a correction value or 'damping factor f.sub.d.' The damping factor f.sub.d may be either a constant or a time-varying function f.sub.d (t) of one or more other time-varying measures, themselves based on received vehicle acceleration information.