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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:
Jul. 25, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles E Steffens, Jr, Washington, MI (US);
John G Bauer, Troy, MI (US);
Assignee:
TRW Vehicle Safety Systems Inc., Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701 45 ; 280735 ; 340562 ;
Abstract
An occupant sensor system (40) has an array (42) of sensors (48.sub.I -48.sub.IV). Each of the sensors (48.sub.I -48.sub.IV) senses the presence of a body portion of an occupant (14) proximately located to the respective sensor and provides a signal (50) indicative of the presence. A controller (30) processes information derived from the signals (50) to characterize the type of the body portion.