Side collision detecting apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorSeiki Aoyama
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Abstract
A side collision detecting apparatus includes a pressure sensor disposed in a side door of a vehicle and including a diaphragm for detecting a pressure in the side door. The diaphragm has a pressure receiving surface configured to be distorted in accordance with a change in the pressure. The pressure sensor is arranged so as to satisfy one of a first condition where an angle between a line along which the pressure receiving surface extends and a horizontal line extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle is from 60 degrees to 90 degrees and a second condition where the angle is less than 60 degrees or greater than 90 degrees and the pressure receiving surface is not vertical.
Claims6
A side collision detecting apparatus for detecting an impact applied to a side surface of a vehicle, the side collision detecting apparatus comprising:
- a pressure sensor disposed in a side door of the vehicle and including a diaphragm configured to detect a pressure in the side door, the diaphragm having a pressure receiving surface configured to be distorted in accordance with a change in the pressure in the side door, the pressure sensor arranged in such a manner that an angle between a horizontal line along which the pressure receiving surface extends and a horizontal line extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle is from 60 degrees to 90 degrees and a plane of the pressure receiving surface is arranged vertically perpendicular to a horizontal plane.
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