Patent ID: 6854782

Claim:
A deployable passenger restraint system for an automotive vehicle comprising: an occupant seat 1 , mounted on a substantially parallel pair of seat tracks for adjustable movement in at least a longitudinal direction 3 , each seat tracks comprising a stationary guide rail 20 mounted to the vehicle floor 8 , having a plastic slide 33 attached thereto, attached in a slidable relationship with a moveable support rail 30 ; a deployable restraint 7 ; a deployable mechanism 6 for deploying the restraint 7 ; a deployable restraint processor means 5 for receiving and processing a plurality of restraint deployment signals and for controlling the deployment mechanism 6 ; and a seat position sensor comprising: a pair of stationary guide rails 20 each having a plastic slide 33 mounted thereon; a Hall Effect sensor 22 mounted on at least one of said plastic slides 33 mounted on said guide rails 20 for sensing the presence of a magnetic sensor target 32 and relaying a signal representative of seat position to the deployable restraint processor means 5 , and said Hall Effect sensor 22 pointing upward toward; a magnetic sensor target 32 mounted along a predetermined length of at least one of said support rails 30 corresponding to the guide rail 20 having the Hall Effect sensor 22 mounted thereon, and pointing downward toward said Hall Effect sensor 22 , said stationary guide rail 20 fixedly mounted to the automotive vehicle.