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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2004
Hideo Tobata, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideo Tobata, Kanagawa, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama-shi, JP;
Abstract
A passenger restraint device of a motor vehicle comprises a plurality of predicting devices each being able to predict or detect a collision of the vehicle with an obstacle in front of the vehicle. A sensitivity adjusting device is able to adjust a sensitivity of at least one of the predicting devices. Reversible passenger restraining devices are able to reversibly restrain a passenger in the vehicle. Non-reversible passenger restraining devices are able to non-reversibly restrain the passenger in the vehicle. A control unit, based on a signal from the one of the predicting devices that has been subjected to the sensitivity adjustment by the sensitivity adjusting device, controls operation of the reversible and non-reversible passenger restraining devices.