Vehicle Safety System
AssigneeAutoliv Development AB
InventorsMoroine Laoufi, Alessandro Zin
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Abstract
A safety system for a motor vehicle having at least a front wheel arrangement having one or more wheels and rear wheel arrangement having one or more wheels, the arrangement having: a control unit; and one or more vehicle inertial sensors to detect acceleration experienced by the vehicle, the inertial sensors being connected to the control unit so the control unit receives output signals from the inertial sensors; and one or more vehicle safety systems which may be activated by the control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to process the signals received from the inertial sensors and to determine whether at least one of the wheels of the front and rear wheel arrangements is not in contact with the surface over which the vehicle is driven.
Claims19
A safety system for a motor vehicle having at least a front wheel arrangement having one or more wheels and a rear wheel arrangement having one or more wheels, the system comprising:
- a control unit;
- one or more vehicle inertial sensors to detect acceleration experienced by the vehicle, the one or more inertial sensors being connected to the control unit so the control unit receives output signals from the one or more inertial sensors;
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- one or more vehicle safety systems which may be activated by the control unit,
- wherein the control unit is configured to process the output signals received from the one or more inertial sensors and to determine whether at least one of the wheels of the front and the rear wheel arrangements is not in contact with the surface over which the vehicle is driven.
A safety system for a motor vehicle having at least a front wheel arrangement having one or more wheels and a rear wheel arrangement having one or more wheels, the system comprising:
- a control unit;
- one or more vehicle inertial sensors to detect acceleration experienced by the vehicle, the one or more vehicle inertial sensors including at least one of a vertical acceleration sensor for measuring the vertical acceleration of the vehicle, a pitch sensor for measuring the pitch of the vehicle, and a longitudinal acceleration sensor for measuring the longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle, the one or more inertial sensors being connected to the control unit so the control unit receives output signals from the one or more inertial sensors;
- one or more vehicle safety systems which may be activated by the control unit, the one or more safety systems including one or more of a reversible or irreversible seatbelt pre-tensioner and an airbag, and
- wherein the control unit is configured to process the output signals received from the one or more inertial sensors and to determine whether at least one of the wheels of the front and the rear wheel arrangements is not in contact with the surface over which the vehicle is driven and activate the one or more vehicle safety systems.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.