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US 2003/0188908 A1Published application
Vehicle occupant protection system
AssigneeTakata Corpoaration
InventorKazuhiro Abe
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Abstract
A vehicle occupant protection system includes a seat belt device and a knee bag device for protecting an occupant sitting on a seat of a vehicle. The protection system also includes a control unit for controlling the seat belt device and knee bag device based on a detection signal and a prediction signal from at least one of a device for detecting a state of the seat, a device for detecting whether the seat belt device is used, a device for predicting a collision, and a device for detecting a condition of an accident.
Claims7
A vehicle occupant protection system for protecting an occupant sitting on a seat of a vehicle, comprising:
- a seat belt device and a knee bag device,
- means for detecting an occupancy state of the seat, means for detecting a usage of the seat belt device, predicting means for predicting a collision, and means for detecting a condition of an accident, and
- control means connected to the seat belt device and the knee bag device for controlling at least one of the seat belt device and the knee bag device based on a signal from at least one of the three detecting means and the predicting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.