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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2008
Chek-peng Foo, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Huahn-fern Yeh, Novi, MI (US);
Kevin Daniel Weiss, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Nikhil Bhaskar Mudaliar, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Lila Ghannam, Northville, MI (US);
Paul Leo Sumner, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Chek-Peng Foo, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Huahn-Fern Yeh, Novi, MI (US);
Kevin Daniel Weiss, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Nikhil Bhaskar Mudaliar, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Lila Ghannam, Northville, MI (US);
Paul Leo Sumner, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
TRW Automotive U.S. LLC, Livonia, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for determining a crash condition including sensing crash acceleration in a vehicle X-direction at a central vehicle location and providing a first acceleration signal indicative thereof, sensing crash acceleration in a vehicle Y-direction, sensing crash acceleration in the X-direction at two locations near opposite sides of the vehicle remote from the central location and providing acceleration signals indicative thereof, determining a transverse crash evaluation value functionally related to the second acceleration signal, and determining remote crash evaluation values functionally related to the acceleration signals at the remote locations. The method further comprises the steps of comparing the determined transverse crash evaluation value as a function of the determined remote evaluation values against an associated threshold and determining a crash condition of the vehicle in response to (a) the comparison and (b) the first acceleration signal.