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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kenyu Okamura, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/0132 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/0132 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle collision determination apparatus includes a first sensor and a second sensor provided in a cabin of a vehicle, and a determining portion that determines severity of a frontal collision of the vehicle based on the difference between an output from the first sensor and an output from the second sensor. The output from the first sensor includes a first acceleration in a backward direction of the vehicle, and the output from the second sensor includes a second acceleration in the backward direction of the vehicle. The first sensor and the second sensor are arranged along the backward direction.