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US 2008/0077289 A1Published application
Rollover Determination Apparatus
OwnerHiromichi Fujishimainventor
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Abstract
A disclosed rollover determination apparatus mounted on a vehicle for determining whether or not the present vehicle has a possibility of rolling over is configured to change its rollover determination criterion when a vehicle behavior control for controlling rotations of wheels is activated, so that it is not determined that the rollover occurs unless variation of the vehicle behavior larger than that under the circumstance where the vehicle behavior control is not activated occurs.
Claims22
A rollover determination apparatus, wherein:
- said rollover determination apparatus is configured to change its rollover determination criterion when a vehicle behavior control for controlling rotations of wheels is activated.
The rollover determination apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein:
- the amount of said variation of the vehicle behavior is determined based on the amount of roll rate detected by a first roll rate sensor and on the amount of roll rate detected by a second roll rate sensor.
A rollover determination apparatus, wherein:
- said rollover determination apparatus is configured to change its rollover determination criterion when a seatbelt auto-retracting apparatus for applying pre-tension to a seatbelt is activated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.