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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2008
David S. Breed, Miami Beach, FL (US);
David S. Breed, Miami Beach, FL (US);
Automotive Technologies International, Inc., Denville, NJ (US);
Abstract
Control system for controlling at least one occupant protection system of a vehicle includes a plurality of preferably electronic sensor systems mounted at different locations on the vehicle, each sensor system providing a measurement related to a state thereof system or a measurement related to a state of the mounting location. A processor is coupled to the sensor systems and diagnoses the state of the vehicle based on the measurements of the sensor systems. The processor controls each occupant protection system based at least in part on the diagnosed state of the vehicle. The occupant protection system may be a deployable airbag whose deployment is controlled by the processor based on the diagnosed state of the vehicle. The diagnosis of the state of the vehicle may be a diagnosis of the overall condition of the vehicle with respect to its stability or a diagnosis of the vehicle itself.