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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2005
David S. Breed, Boonton Township, Morris County, NJ (US);
Vittorio Castelli, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Anthony S. Pruszenski, Jr., Newburyport, MA (US);
David S. Breed, Boonton Township, Morris County, NJ (US);
Vittorio Castelli, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Anthony S. Pruszenski, Jr., Newburyport, MA (US);
Automotive Technologies International, Inc., Denville, NJ (US);
Abstract
Vehicle including an occupant protection apparatus for protecting an occupant during an impact into a side of the vehicle, and a side impact, electronic crash sensor assembly for detecting impact into the side of the vehicle and controlling the occupant protection apparatus responsive to the detected impact. The sensor assembly includes a sensor housing arranged in a door or between inner and outer side panels along a side of the vehicle, a movable sensing mass arranged within and movable in the lateral direction relative to the sensor housing in response to lateral accelerations thereof, a micro-processor containing an algorithm which generates a time-varying signal representative of lateral movement of the mass, analyzes the signal and generates a deployment signal based thereon, and a control unit for receiving the deployment signal from the micro-processor and controlling deployment of the occupant protection apparatus based thereon.