Intelligent air bag system
AssigneeIntelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc.
InventorsOtman Basir, Fakhri Karray
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Abstract
An intelligent air bag system includes a controller communicating with a sensor suite and the air bag. The controller preferably includes a fuzzy inference engine. The sensor suite includes a plurality of sensors such as weight sensors, acceleration sensors, seat belt activation sensors, and the like. The fuzzy inference engine determines deployment by using a rule base including a multiple of parameters. The decision to deploy the air bag and the strength of the air bag deployment is determined by controller using fuzzy logic to more particularly tailor deployment to present conditions.
Claims10
An air bag system comprising:
- a controller including a fuzzy inference engine responding to a rule base;
- a sensor suite communicating with said controller;
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- an air bag communicating with said controller, said controller operable to activate said air bag in response to said sensor suite and said rule base.
A method of activating an air bag system comprising the steps of:
- (1) defining a rule base relating a multiple of air bag deployment parameters and conditions;
- (2) communicating inputs from a sensor suite to a controller operating upon the rule base;
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- (3) determining whether to deploy an air bag in response to the rule base and said inputs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.