Patent ID: 9725059
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B60R

Claim:
1. A vehicle collision determination apparatus comprising: a first sensor provided in a front section of a vehicle, an output of the first sensor includes first acceleration in a backward direction of the vehicle and second acceleration in a rightward direction or a leftward direction; a second sensor provided in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, an output of the second sensor includes third acceleration in the backward direction and fourth acceleration in the rightward direction or the leftward direction; a determination section which determines, on a basis of the output of the first sensor, whether there has occurred a front collision of the vehicle, and when the determination section determines that the front collision of the vehicle has occurred, further determines a mode of the front collision among a plurality of modes of front collision by use of an integrated value of the first acceleration and an integrated value of the second acceleration, wherein, when the mode of the front collision is a predetermined mode among the plurality of modes of front collision, the determination section determines a severity of the front collision using integrated values of only the third acceleration and the fourth acceleration among the first acceleration, second acceleration, third acceleration, and fourth acceleration, and when the mode of the front collision is one of the plurality of modes of front collision other than the predetermined mode, the determination section determines the severity of the front collision using integrated values of only the first acceleration and the second acceleration among the first acceleration, second acceleration, third acceleration, and fourth acceleration.