| US 7,556,116 B2 | ||
| Vehicle passenger restraining system | ||
| Ryuuji Ootani, Yokosuka (Japan); and Chinmoy Pal, Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 07, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/267,292. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-334801 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2004; and application No. 2004-334830 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0102413 A1, May 18, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60K 28/10 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 180—274 | 18 Claims |
| 1. A vehicle passenger restraining system comprising:
a plurality of passenger restraining devices configured and arranged to restrain a passenger inside a vehicle;
a deformation detecting device including at least one deformation sensor coupled to a single location of a vehicle body of
the vehicle with the deformation sensor being configured and arranged to detect a deformation condition of the vehicle body;
and
a passenger restraining device operating unit configured to process an output signal from the deformation sensor to obtain
a processed signal waveform, to identify an impact location among a plurality of locations of the vehicle body as impact information
by comparing the processed signal waveform to a reference database with the impact information being different for each of
the plurality of locations depending upon the impact location, and to selectively operate at least one of the passenger restraining
devices in accordance with the impact information.
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