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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2012
Paul Kevin Kula, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Abraham Philip, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Steven Yellin Schondorf, Dearborn, MI (US);
David James Tippy, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Bill Pappas, Oxford, MI (US);
Yeruva Reddy, Farmington, MI (US);
Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Canton, MI (US);
Paul Kevin Kula, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Abraham Philip, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Steven Yellin Schondorf, Dearborn, MI (US);
David James Tippy, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Bill Pappas, Oxford, MI (US);
Yeruva Reddy, Farmington, MI (US);
Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An impact detection system has two chambers disposed adjacent to one another. The two chambers have opposing tapered shapes, so that an impact anywhere along them will create a different pressure wave or pulse in each chamber. A pressure sensor module incorporating two pressure sensors is disposed at one end of the dual-channel unit, and comparison of the signals from the sensors can be used to discriminate both the location and severity of a pedestrian impact.