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US 2010/0138114 A1Published application
Apparatus to control airbag for side collision
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasatada Yoshida
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Abstract
An apparatus to control an airbag for a side collision includes a vehicle inclination detecting unit which detects an inclination of a vehicle relative to a horizontal direction, and a threshold value changing unit which changes a threshold value to operate the airbag for the side collision corresponding to the inclination of the vehicle relative to the horizontal direction detected by the vehicle inclination detecting unit.
Claims6
(canceled)
An apparatus to control an airbag for a side collision, comprising:
- a vehicle inclination detecting unit which detects an inclination of a vehicle relative to a horizontal direction;
- a door opening or closing condition detecting unit which detects a door opening or closing condition of a door of the vehicle;
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- a threshold value changing unit which changes a threshold value to operate the airbag for the side collision corresponding to the inclination of the vehicle relative to the horizontal direction detected by the vehicle inclination detecting unit and the door opening condition detected by the door opening or closing condition detecting unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.