Method and device for triggering at least one passenger protection means of a vehicle
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorGunther LANG
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Abstract
A method for triggering a passenger protection unit of a vehicle includes: reading in a first and a second sensor signal value of a first sensor, which is situated at a first location in the vehicle; reading in a third and a fourth sensor signal value of a second sensor, which is situated at a second location in the vehicle which is different from the first location; and activating the passenger protection unit using the first, second, third and fourth sensor signal values. The first and third sensor signal values represent a physical variable detected in a first sensor direction, and the second and fourth sensor signal values represent a second physical value detected in a second sensor direction which is different from the first sensor direction.
Claims14
A method for triggering at least one passenger protection unit of a vehicle, comprising:
- reading in at least a first and a second sensor signal value of a first sensor which is situated at a first location in the vehicle, the first sensor signal value representing a physical variable detected in a first sensor direction, and a second sensor signal value representing a physical variable detected in a second sensor direction which is different from the first sensor direction;
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- activating the passenger protection unit using at least the first and the second sensor signal value.
A device for triggering at least one passenger protection unit of a vehicle, comprising:
- a control unit including a processor configured to perform the following:
- reading in at least a first and a second sensor signal value of a first sensor which is situated at a first location in the vehicle, the first sensor signal value representing a physical variable detected in a first sensor direction, and a second sensor signal value representing a physical variable detected in a second sensor direction which is different from the first sensor direction;
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- activating the passenger protection unit using at least the first and the second sensor signal value;
- wherein, during the step of reading in, a third and a fourth sensor signal value are additionally read in by a second sensor which is situated at a second location in the vehicle which is different from the first location, the third sensor signal value representing a third physical variable detected in the first sensor direction, and the fourth sensor signal value representing a fourth physical variable detected in the second sensor direction, and wherein the passenger protection unit is activated additionally taking into account the third and the fourth sensor signal value.
A non-transitory, computer-readable data storage medium storing a computer program having program codes which, when executed on a computer, perform a method for triggering at least one passenger protection unit of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- reading in at least a first and a second sensor signal value of a first sensor which is situated at a first location in the vehicle, the first sensor signal value representing a physical variable detected in a first sensor direction, and a second sensor signal value representing a physical variable detected in a second sensor direction which is different from the first sensor direction;
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- activating the passenger protection unit using at least the first and the second sensor signal value;
- wherein, during the step of reading in, a third and a fourth sensor signal value are additionally read in by a second sensor which is situated at a second location in the vehicle which is different from the first location, the third sensor signal value representing a third physical variable detected in the first sensor direction, and the fourth sensor signal value representing a fourth physical variable detected in the second sensor direction, and wherein the passenger protection unit is activated additionally taking into account the third and the fourth sensor signal value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.