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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2003
Manfred Frimberger, Ergoldsbach, DE;
Telmo Glaser, Regensburg, DE;
Jeffrey Gleacher, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Reinhard Hamperl, Koefering, DE;
Matthias Kiening, Bad Abbach, DE;
Douglas McConnell, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Reinhart Weber, Regensburg, DE;
Seimens VDO Automotive Corporation, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle occupant restraining system includes a plurality of safety restraint devices and utilizes a main controller and a safing controller to determine whether or not conditions are proper for deploying each safety restraint device. The system discriminates between front, side, rear, and roll-over impact events and determines which safety restraint devices should be deployed in response to an impact event. The system also independently determines whether to activate a fuel cut-off switch in response to an impact event. The main and safing controllers utilize vehicle data from a main center tunnel sensor assembly and various satellite sensors to make deployment decisions. The safing controller is used to independently verify whether or not the safety restraint should be deployed.