KR20120038655A - Apparatus for controling airbag and method thereof - Google Patents
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Abstract
Description
The present invention relates to a vehicle airbag control device, and more particularly to a vehicle airbag control device and a control method that separates the control of the front safety device for the frontal collision and the control of the side safety device for the side collision.
Recently, as the number of accidents caused by the increase of vehicles has become frequent, the performance regulation of automobiles on collisions, the merchandise, and legal regulations on them have been strengthened day by day. In particular, due to the increasing legal requirements of each country in the safety field of passengers and increasing consumer's desire for vehicle safety, seat belts and airbag systems are recognized as essential devices for automobiles. It can also be a representative reference data.
As a result, automobile companies in various countries are conducting a lot of research to improve the performance of seat belts and airbags in the event of a crash.As a result, various types of safety devices are provided to improve the protection performance of the occupants. Is being added to.
However, in order to install these various types of safety devices in a car, the capacity of the control unit for controlling these safety devices must also be increased. In order to develop a control unit having a large capacity, a large amount of research costs and considerable time are required to develop them. The required problem has arisen.
In order to solve this problem, conventionally, a method of controlling a plurality of front and side safety devices and a plurality of sensors using two conventional control units has been proposed.
For example, as shown in FIG. 1, the conventional airbag control apparatus includes a
However, in the prior art, when the first
In addition, in order to solve the problems of the prior art, the airbag is controlled by separating the control unit into a control unit for determining only a collision from a signal detected by a sensor and a control unit for controlling only a safety device according to the collision determination. Some suggestions have been made.
For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the conventional airbag control apparatus includes a
However, in the prior art, the main
An object of the present invention for solving this problem is to provide a vehicle airbag control device and a control method that can effectively cope with securing the capacity of the necessary control unit due to the addition of a safety device for protecting the occupant from a vehicle collision.
In order to achieve the above object, the airbag control apparatus according to the present invention includes a seat belt wearing sensor for detecting wearing of the seat belt and a seat track position sensor for detecting a moving state of the seat, and a passenger identification for detecting seating of the occupant of the seat. A state detection sensor including a sensor, a front collision sensor for detecting a front collision of the vehicle, and the front sensor is judged whether the front collision is received by receiving a signal related to a front collision from the state sensor and the front collision sensor, The front control unit outputs a safety operation signal for protecting the occupant to the front safety device, a side collision sensor for detecting a side collision of the vehicle, and a signal related to a side collision of the vehicle from the state sensor and the side collision sensor. To determine whether or not a side impact and then protect the occupant from a side collision Include side control unit that outputs an operation signal to a safety side safety.
Preferably, the front control unit and the side control unit determines whether the front safety device is abnormal or the safety of the side safety device, respectively to warn the outside through the airbag status output device.
Preferably, the front safety device includes a driver's seat and a passenger seat airbag module, a roof airbag module, a pretensioner seat belt module, a knee airbag module, and an anchor pretensioner module.
Preferably, the side safety device includes a side airbag module, a curtain airbag module and a side center front / rear airbag module.
The airbag control method according to the present invention includes detecting the occupant's state information to detect whether the seat belt is worn, the movement state of the seat, and whether the occupant is seated on the seat, and detecting a frontal collision of the vehicle to detect a front collision signal. When the front collision detection step to be applied, and the status information of the occupant and the front collision signal is applied to the front control unit, it is determined whether the front collision or not, the front safety operation signal for protecting the occupant from the front collision to the front safety device A collision determination step, a side collision detection step of detecting a side collision of the vehicle and applying a side collision signal, and when the passenger's state information and a side collision signal are applied to the side control unit, the side collision is determined to determine whether a side collision Front collision determination stage to output side safety operation signals to side safety devices to protect occupants It includes.
According to the present invention, the following remarkable effects can be realized.
First, the present invention can secure the capacity of the control unit comparable to the large-capacity control unit without newly developing a large-capacity control unit, thereby reducing the research cost and time generated when developing the large-capacity control unit, and the proven high quality There is an advantage that the reliability can be secured.
Second, according to the present invention, two different control units each independently proceed with a collision determination related to a frontal collision and a collision determination related to a side collision, thereby providing two conventional control units (first airbag control unit and second airbag control unit). In the case of controlling both front and side safety devices at the same time, there is an advantage that each control unit can prevent an error that determines a different collision decision.
Third, according to the present invention, two different control units directly control the front safety device related to the frontal collision and the side safety device related to the side collision, respectively, so that two different control units (main airbag control unit, sub-conventionally connected) are conventionally connected. In the case of controlling the safety device through the airbag control unit, it is possible to prevent the problem that the deployment time of the airbag is delayed.
1 is a block diagram showing a vehicle airbag control apparatus according to an example of the prior art.
Figure 2 is a block diagram showing a vehicle airbag control device according to another example of the prior art.
Figure 3 is a block diagram showing a vehicle airbag control apparatus according to the present invention.
First of all, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same reference numerals are used as much as possible even if displayed on different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.
Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in FIG. 3, the airbag control apparatus according to the present invention includes two different control units (front control unit and side control unit) that independently determine a collision determination related to a frontal collision and a collision determination related to a side collision. Through, the
Specifically, the airbag control device is a
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On the other hand, the airbag control method according to the present invention includes a passenger's state information detection step, front collision detection step, front collision determination step, side collision detection step and front collision determination step.
The state information detecting step detects the seat belt wearing through the seat belt wearing sensor, detects the movement state of the seat through the seat track position sensor, and detects whether the seat of the occupant is seated by the occupant identification sensor.
The front collision detecting step detects whether the vehicle is in front of the vehicle through the
In the front collision determination step, when the passenger's state information is applied from the
The side collision detection step detects a side collision of the vehicle through the
In the side collision determination step, when state information of the occupant is applied from the
Although the present invention has been described in detail using the preferred embodiments, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments, and should be interpreted by the appended claims. In addition, those skilled in the art should understand that many modifications and variations are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention.
110: state detection sensor 120: airbag status output device
210: front collision sensor 220: front control unit
310: side collision sensor 320: side control unit
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A front collision sensor 210 for detecting a front collision of the vehicle;
After receiving the signals related to the front collision from the state sensor 110 and the front collision sensor 210 to determine whether or not the front collision, a safety operation signal for protecting the occupant from the front vehicle collision to the front safety device 230 A front control unit 220 for outputting;
A side collision sensor 310 for detecting a side collision of the vehicle; And
After receiving the signals related to the side collision of the vehicle from the state sensor 110 and the side collision sensor 310 to determine whether the side collision, safety operation signal for protecting the occupant from the side collision of the vehicle to the side safety device 330 Vehicle airbag control device comprising a side control unit 320 for outputting.
The front control unit 220 and the side control unit 320 determines whether the front safety device 230 is abnormal and the side safety device 330 is abnormal, respectively, through the airbag state output device 120. Vehicle airbag control device, characterized in that for warning.
The front safety device 230 is a vehicle airbag control device comprising a driver seat and passenger seat airbag module, a roof airbag module, a pretensioner seat belt module, a knee airbag module and an anchor pretensioner module.
The side safety device (330) is a vehicle airbag control device comprising a side airbag module, curtain airbag module and side center front / rear airbag module.
A front collision detection step of sensing a front collision of the vehicle and applying a front collision signal;
A front collision determination step of determining whether a front collision occurs and outputting a front safety operation signal for protecting the occupant from a front collision to the front safety device when the driver's status information and the front collision signal are applied to the front control unit;
A side collision detection step of detecting a side collision of the vehicle and applying a side collision signal;
When the passenger's status information and the side collision signal is applied to the side control unit, the front collision determination step of outputting the side safety operation signal for protecting the occupant from the side collision by determining whether the side collision to the side safety device; Vehicle airbag control method.
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