| US 7,568,543 B2 | ||
| Device for controlling restraining means in a vehicle | ||
| Harald Gaukel, Heilbronn (Germany); Gerhard Loeckle, Ludwigsburg (Germany); and Volker Walz, Bietigheim-Bissingen (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (Germany) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/532,414 PCT Filed Oct. 21, 2003, PCT No. PCT/DE03/03482 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 22, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/078529, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 103 09 081 (DE), filed on Mar. 03, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0269809 A1, Dec. 08, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60R 21/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 180—271 [180/282; 701/45] | 12 Claims |
| 1. A device for triggering a restraining device in a vehicle, comprising:
an arrangement for triggering the restraining device as a function of a velocity of the vehicle, the arrangement considering
the vehicle velocity as a function of a signal from at least one remote sensor, wherein the velocity is provided by a sensor
arrangement that determines the velocity, and wherein the remote sensor is used to perform a plausibility check for the velocity
of the vehicle;
a modifying arrangement for modifying at least one threshold to which at least one crash signal is compared for the triggering
of the restraining device, as a function of the vehicle velocity;
a subdividing arrangement for subdividing the vehicle velocity into a predefined class as a function of a magnitude of the
vehicle velocity and then for modifying the threshold as a function of the class; and
a comparing arrangement for comparing the signal of the at least one remote sensor to a plausibility threshold, the plausibility
threshold lying below a trigger threshold for generating a crash signal of the at least one remote sensor, the vehicle velocity
being taken into consideration in the triggering of the restraining device as a function of the comparison.
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