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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2001
Kenji Yoshioka, Kanagawa, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The disclosed emergency informing terminal mounted on a vehicle for making an emergency call to the center for supervising the emergency informing system recognizes emergency informing signals of different signal formats, and executes the emergency informing process. This emergency informing terminal recognizes emergency informing signals entered in different signal formats in every vehicle, and the control unit for executing emergency informing process according to the signal recognizes whether the signal format belongs to the air bag equipment connected to a vehicular LAN or the directly connected air bag equipment on the basis of the status signal. Consequently, transferring to the input state confirming state of the signal format, the signal is processed. Further, when a signal showing air bag developing state or the like is entered, the emergency informing process is started.