Patent ID: 6970778
Filing Date: 2005-11-29
Classification: B60R,G01P

Abstract:
1. An occupant restraint system for restraining occupants of a motor vehicle during a collision, said system comprising: restraining means for protecting occupants in the motor vehicle; at least two electronic acceleration sensors for detecting a collision, each of said at least two electronic acceleration sensors being arranged as a spatially separate unit from the others of said at least two electronic acceleration sensors and outputting an acceleration signal; an evaluation unit connected to said at least two electronic sensors for receiving one of said acceleration signals and signals derived from said acceleration signals and integrating the received signals over time; and a control device coupled to at least one of said evaluation unit and said at least two electronic acceleration sensors and including means for weighting the integrated received signals, said control device further comprising means for determining a sum of the weighted integrated signals and means for triggering said restraining means when a sum of said weighted integrated received signals exceeds a minimum sum or when one of each integrated received signal or a signal derived from each integrated received signal exceeds a minimum threshold.