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US 7,260,461 B2Granted
Method for operating a pre-crash sensing system with protruding contact sensor
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsManoharprasad K. Rao, Mark Cuddihy, David Bauch, Joseph Brown
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Abstract
A method of operating a restraint system includes classifying a collision into a collision classification, generating a protruding contact sensor output and deploying the restraint system in response to the contact sensor output and the output classification. The method may also use a pre-crash sensor with or without classification and deploy the restraint system in response to the pre-crash sensor signal and the protruding contact sensor signal.
Claims7
A method of operating a restraint system comprising:
- classifying a collision into a collision classification;
- generating a contact sensor output from a contact sensor protruding from an exterior surface of the vehicle;
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- deploying the restraint system in response to the protruding contact sensor output and the collision classification.
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