Motor vehicle airbag control unit has an interface, for crash sensor signals, with evaluation and control circuits for the brakes in an integrated system

• Main Authors: EWERHART, FRANK, MAYER, JOCHEN, STABREY, STEPHAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; German
• Published: 29.05.2008
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OFVEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

The control for a motor vehicle airbag (AB,GS) has an initial interface (IF1) to take a signal from a crash sensor (100). An evaluation circuit (mu C) generates a control signal according to the sensor signal. A control circuit (FLIC) controls the brake system (ABV,ABS,BS) according to the control s...