Vehicle and method of controlling an airbag of a vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorSungdon Wee
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Abstract
A vehicle and a method of controlling an airbag of a vehicle enhances the efficiency in airbag deployment by predicting the possibility of collision of the vehicle in advance from a driving manipulation pattern of a driver and actively and variably adjusts a threshold value for deploying an airbag on the basis of a result of the prediction of the possibility of collision. The method of controlling an airbag of a vehicle includes determining a possibility of collision of the vehicle from a driving manipulation pattern of the vehicle, and variably adjusting a threshold value for deployment of the airbag on the basis of a result of the determination of the possibility of collision.
Claims17
A method of controlling an airbag of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- determining a possibility of collision of the vehicle from a driving manipulation pattern of a driver of the vehicle and a detected value of at least one sensor of the vehicle;
- and
- variably adjusting a threshold value for deployment of the airbag on the basis of a result of the determination of the possibility of collision,
- wherein the driving manipulation pattern for performing steering includes a mismatch of a manipulation direction of the steering wheel and a direction of a route displayed on a map of a navigation system in the vehicle.
A vehicle comprising:
- an airbag;
- an airbag driving unit configured to deploy the airbag;
- and
- a controller configured to determine a possibility of collision of the vehicle from a driving manipulation pattern of a driver of the vehicle and a detected value of at least one sensor of the vehicle, and to variably adjust a threshold value for deployment of the airbag on the basis of a result of the determination of the possibility of collision,
- wherein the driving manipulation pattern of the vehicle includes manipulating a steering wheel of the vehicle, and
- wherein the driving manipulation pattern for performing steering includes a mismatch of a manipulation direction of the steering wheel and a direction of a route displayed on a map of a navigation system in the vehicle.
A method of controlling an airbag of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- determining a collision avoidance intent of a driver of the vehicle from a driving manipulation pattern of the driver of the vehicle;
- detecting a value of at least one sensor of the vehicle;
- determining a possibility of collision of the vehicle from a result of the determination of the collision avoidance intent of the driver and the value of the at least one sensor of the vehicle;
- and
- variably adjusting a threshold value for deployment of the airbag on the basis of a result of the determination of the possibility of collision, wherein in response to a possibility of collision determined to be present, the threshold value for deployment of the airbag is adjusted to be lowered such that a possibility of deployment of the airbag is increased,
- wherein the driving manipulation pattern of the vehicle includes manipulating a steering wheel of the vehicle, and
- wherein the driving manipulation pattern for performing steering includes a mismatch of a manipulation direction of the steering wheel and a direction of a route displayed on a map of a navigation system in the vehicle.
A vehicle comprising:
- an airbag;
- an airbag driving unit configured to deploy the airbag;
- and
- a controller configured to determine a collision avoidance intent of a driver of the vehicle from a driving manipulation pattern of the driver of the vehicle, to detect a value of at least one sensor of the vehicle, to determine a possibility of collision of the vehicle from a result of the determination of the collision avoidance intent of the driver and the value of the at least one sensor of the vehicle, and to variably adjust a threshold value for deployment of the airbag on the basis of a result of the determination of the possibility of collision, wherein in response to a possibility of collision determined to be present, the threshold value for deployment of the airbag is adjusted to be lowered such that a possibility of deployment of the airbag is increased,
- wherein the driving manipulation pattern of the vehicle includes manipulating a steering wheel of the vehicle, and
- wherein the driving manipulation pattern for performing steering includes a mismatch of a manipulation direction of the steering wheel and a direction of a route displayed on a map of a navigation system in the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.