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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
May. 03, 2006
Chek-peng Foo, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Huahn-fern Yeh, Novi, MI (US);
Kevin Daniel Weiss, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Yaosying Kwang, Novi, MI (US);
Kazuki Shiozawa, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Chek-Peng Foo, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Huahn-Fern Yeh, Novi, MI (US);
Kevin Daniel Weiss, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Yaosying Kwang, Novi, MI (US);
Kazuki Shiozawa, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
TRW Automotive U. S. LLC, Livonia, MI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for controlling a vehicle actuatable occupant restraining system including a central crash accelerometer sensing crash acceleration at a central vehicle location and providing a first crash acceleration signal indicative thereof. A crush zone crash accelerometer senses transverse crash acceleration at a forward location of the vehicle. A controller actuates the actuatable occupant restraining system in response to the central crash acceleration signal and the transverse crash acceleration signal from the crush zone sensor.