Patent ID: 6529810
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
An apparatus for controlling a vehicle actuatable occupant restraining system comprising:a first crash accelerometer sensing crash acceleration and providing a first crash acceleration signal indicative thereof; means for determining crash velocity in response to the first crash acceleration signal; means for determining crash displacement in response to the first crash acceleration signal; a controller actuating the actuatable occupant restraining system in response to the determined crash velocity as a function of crash displacement exceeding a selected one of a discrimination threshold and a switched discrimination threshold; a second accelerometer sensing transverse crash acceleration and providing a transverse crash acceleration signal indicative thereof; and said controller including means for comparing a value functionally related to the transverse crash acceleration as a function of the determined crash displacement against a transverse threshold and means for selecting one of the discrimination threshold and the switched discrimination threshold in response to the comparison of the value functionally related to the transverse acceleration against the transverse threshold.