Nikhil B Mudaliar

8265831, Sep 11, 2012

Aug 28, 2008

12/200516

Kevin Daniel Weiss - Royal Oak MI, US
Nikhil Bhaskar Mudaliar - Ann Arbor MI, US
Lila Ghannam - Northville MI, US
Paul Leo Sumner - Farmington Hills MI, US

TRW Automotive U.S. LLC - Livonia MI

B60R 22/00
E05F 15/00
G05D 1/00
G05D 3/00
G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

701 45

A method for determining a crash condition including sensing crash acceleration in a vehicle X-direction at a central vehicle location and providing a first acceleration signal indicative thereof, sensing crash acceleration in a vehicle Y-direction, sensing crash acceleration in the X-direction at two locations near opposite sides of the vehicle remote from the central location and providing acceleration signals indicative thereof, determining a transverse crash evaluation value functionally related to the second acceleration signal, and determining remote crash evaluation values functionally related to the acceleration signals at the remote locations. The method further comprises the steps of comparing the determined transverse crash evaluation value as a function of the determined remote evaluation values against an associated threshold and determining a crash condition of the vehicle in response to (a) the comparison and (b) the first acceleration signal.

20070005207, Jan 4, 2007

Jun 30, 2005

11/172109

Kevin Weiss - Farmington Hills MI, US
Christopher Hibner - Canton MI, US
Nikhil Mudaliar - Ann Arbor MI, US

B60R 21/32

701045000, 280735000, 180282000

An apparatus () for controlling a vehicle actuatable occupant restraining system including a crash accelerometer () for sensing frontal crash acceleration and providing a first crash acceleration signal indicative thereof. A side crash accelerometer () senses transverse crash acceleration and provides a second crash acceleration signal indicative thereof. A controller () actuates the actuatable occupant restraining system in response to the first crash acceleration signal and the transverse crash acceleration signal.