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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1999
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
An air bag apparatus to be disclosed has an air bag, an air bag driver for performing drive of the air bag to develop the air bag, and an air bag control device for controlling the drive of the air bag driver as a basic arrangement. The air bag control device has an arrangement in which an air bag operation selecting device having information related to selection of an operation state of the air bag driver can be connected to the air bag control device. Further, the air bag control device has a non-volatile storage device, determines a connection state of the air bag operation selecting device to the air bag control device, and stores information related to the determined connection state in the non-volatile storage device.