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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
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:
Assistant 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 provided in a front section of the vehicle; and a determination section which determines, on the basis of output of the first sensor, whether there has occurred front collision of the vehicle. The output of the first sensor has first acceleration in a backward direction of the vehicle and second acceleration in a rightward direction and/or a leftward direction, and the determination section determines severity of the front collision by use of an integrated value of the first acceleration and an integrated value of the second acceleration.