Air bag simulator and method of simulating an air bag
AssigneeSPX Corporation
InventorsScott K. Krampitz, Corey Ermer, David Tusa
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Abstract
A portable air bag simulator having a circuit that provides selectable resistance values between 0.5 ohms and 6.0 ohms. The air bag simulator can be used to simulate the resistance of a number of air bag models and can simultaneously simulate both the driver side and passenger side airbag.
Claims20
An air bag simulator, comprising:
- a first output of said air bag simulator having at least a first and second electrical contact;
- said first electrical contact being connected to a switch having a plurality of output terminals, each of said plurality of output terminals being connected to a first end of different resistance loads;
- a second end of said resistance loads being connected to said second electrical contact;
- wherein the first electrical contact is configured to provide a connection to a power transmitter adapted to communicate with an air bag system.
A device for simulating a plurality of air bags having different resistance values values comprising, a plurality of resistance units having different resistance values and an electrical contact configured to provide a connection to a power transmitter adapted to communicate with an air bag system.
A method of simulating an air bag comprising the steps of:
- replacing an air bag in an air bag system with a variable resistance load;
- connecting an electrical contact to the air bag system configured to provide a connection to a power transmitter adapted to communicate with the air bag system;
- and
- adjusting the variable resistance load to match the resistance load of the replaced air bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.