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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2005
Manoharprasad K. Rao, Novi, MI (US);
Mark Cuddihy, New Boston, MI (US);
David Bauch, South Lyon, MI (US);
Joseph Brown, Grosse Ile, MI (US);
Manoharprasad K. Rao, Novi, MI (US);
Mark Cuddihy, New Boston, MI (US);
David Bauch, South Lyon, MI (US);
Joseph Brown, Grosse Ile, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a restraint system includes classifying a collision into a collision classification, generating a protruding contact sensor output and deploying the restraint system in response to the contact sensor output and the output classification. The method may also use a pre-crash sensor with or without classification and deploy the restraint system in response to the pre-crash sensor signal and the protruding contact sensor signal.