Appeal No. 2003-1153
Application No. 09/349,214
protection of the vehicle occupants, the improvement wherein said
central controller processes the localized crash severity
measurements provided by said plurality of remote crash sensors
and determines which of said plurality of restraints to deploy
by:
(a) storing a crash classification mask for each of a
plurality of crash classifications, each such mask comprising a
set of predetermined remote crash sensor values characteristic of
the respective crash classification and a restraint deployment
code identifying which of the restraints should be deployed for
the respective crash classification;
(b) collecting crash severity measurements from the remote
crash sensors in the course of a crash event, and storing such
measurements in a crash characterization table;
(c) consecutively applying said crash classification masks
to said crash characterization table, and in the event of a match
between the predetermined values of a given crash classification
mask and the sensor measurements stored in said crash
characterization table, identifying a restraint deployment code
from such given crash classification mask; and
(d) analyzing the identified restraint deployment code to
determine which of said plurality of restraints to deploy.
REFERENCES
The references relied on by Examiner are as follows:
Iyoda 5,899,946 May 4, 1999
(filed Oct. 4, 1996)
Kincaid 5,899,949 May 4, 1999
(filed Jan. 26, 1998)
Hermann et al. 6,113,138 Sep. 5, 2000
(Hermann) (filed Dec. 9, 1997)
REJECTIONS AT ISSUE
Claims 1 and 2 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) over
Hermann. Claims 3 and 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
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