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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2006
Masatoshi Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;
Toshinori Yagi, Tokyo, JP;
Calsonic Kansei Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle passenger detecting device includes a judging circuit (), which judges whether a passenger seated on a seat () is a child or not based on a load acting on each of areas of a seat portion () of the seat for a vehicle, and the judging circuit (), with a fastened sate of a seat belt (), judges whether or not a total load acting on the entire area of the seat portion is within a predetermined range, and when the total load is within the predetermined range, if a front outer load acting on a front outer area is a first threshold or more and the ratio of the front outer load to a front inner load acting on a front inner area is a second threshold or more, or the ratio of both outer loads acting on both of outer areas to both inner loads acting on both of inner areas is a third threshold or more, the judging circuit judges () that a seated passenger is a child.