School vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus and control method thereof
Technical field
The invention belongs to field of automobile safety, particularly relate to a kind of school vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus and control method thereof.
Background technology
Along with the growth of automobile pollution, road traffic accident and casualty's quantity constantly increase.Wherein, school bus accident occurs again and again.There is very large potential safety hazard in safety of school bus problem, has become the social concern nowadays perplexing people.
The structure Shortcomings of the occupant restrain system of existing school bus, under the operating mode such as head-on crash or emergency braking, the system unit that can play a role only has seat, safety strap and front-row seats.Major part school bus, according to " special safety of school bus engineering factor " standard, is equipped with the two-point form lap belt safety band of regulation in " self-propelled vehicle Adult occupant safety strap and constrained system ".Some good school buses are equipped with body-restraining seat belt, only reach the minimum level of car occupant restraint.And some school bus is in order to cost-saving, be not even equipped with safety strap.Simultaneously; the seatbelt wearing rate of school bus is also not fully up to expectations, and the protected effect of safety strap is not well played, at school bus emergency braking or when colliding; the child passenger of not fastening the safety belt due to inertia and front-row seats generation secondary collision, will be subject to larger injury.
Because the spacing of child's school bus front and rear row seat is less, on child's school bus, the topmost Damage site of child passenger is chest.And on middle and primary schools' school bus, 5 hundredths dummies injure the major cause exceeded standard is that head injury is too high; this illustrates that the gap due to student's build on middle and primary schools' school bus is larger; injury mode is more complicated; in addition children are many kinetoplasts; form of diverse on seat, adult belt is comparatively difficult to provide comprehensive protected effect.Actual school bus accident kind form also has multiple, and has the example of a lot of rolling, and the simple safety belt restraining system of tradition can not be issued to the protection requirement of child passenger in these operating modes.
At present, both at home and abroad to the research improving safety of school bus mainly for the body construction of school bus own strengthening, adopt drive assist system, intelligent driving system and use car networking to carry out, come location and the operation of further specification school bus by strengthening legal management, and school bus occupant restrain system not to be optimized.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to the deficiency solving the existence of above-mentioned school bus Future Prospects of Child Restraint Systems for Vehicles, a kind of school vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus and control method thereof are provided, to the children of different building shape, carry out the available protecting at full-time quarter when driving.
The present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions above-mentioned technical purpose.
School vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus, it is characterized in that, comprise gas-bag system, controller (being called for short " ECU "), the main supply switch be connected with ECU respectively, pressure distribution sensor and car speed sensor, described pressure distribution sensor is loaded on Chain cushion, car speed sensor is loaded on axletree, described gas-bag system comprises air bag and knits bag, accommodation device, air intake control valve, disappointing control cock, gas pressure sensor, gas feeder, air bag is knitted bag and can be accommodated in accommodation device, air intake control valve, disappointing control cock is respectively used to control air bag and knits the air inlet of bag and lose heart, described air intake control valve is connected with gas feeder by admission line, control cock of losing heart communicates with air, accommodation device is fixed on the back side of Chair back, described gas pressure sensor is positioned at air bag and knits bag inside, and be connected with ECU, described gas feeder is compressed-air actuated feeding mechanism.
Preferably, described accommodation device comprises wind spring, box body, and being connected with wind spring of bag knitted by air bag, and wind spring is loaded in box body, and other limits that bag knitted by air bag are connected with box body, and described air intake control valve, control cock of losing heart, gas pressure sensor are fixed on box body.
Preferably, described gas feeder is air compressor.
The control method of school vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus, is characterized in that, comprise the following steps:
(1) detect occupant on seat to the pressure of seat by pressure distribution sensor and transfer to ECU, according to force value, ECU judges whether occupant is child passenger, if children, determine that school vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus works;
(2) after school bus starts traveling, the moving velocity of car speed sensor Real-time Collection vehicle the threshold value transferring to ECU and setting compare, when the moving velocity of vehicle exceedes the threshold value of setting, ECU controls air intake control valve and opens, gas feeder knits bag inflation by air intake control valve to air bag, and air bag is knitted bag and launched;
(3) gas pressure sensor that bag inside knitted by air bag detects air bag in real time and knits the air pressure in bag and be sent to ECU, ECU knits the real-time air pressure in bag according to air bag, by the pressure controlling air intake control valve, bag internal gas knitted by control cock of losing heart adjustment air bag;
(4) when ECU is according to the moving velocity judgement vehicle emergency brake of the vehicle of car speed sensor Real-time Collection or when colliding, child passenger and air bag knit bag when coming in contact, ECU, according to the gas pressure information of gas pressure sensor Real-time Collection, regulates air bag to knit the pressure of bag internal gas by the aperture controlling disappointing control cock;
(5) after traveling terminates, by adjustment main supply switch, control by ECU control cock of losing heart, make air bag knit gas in bag and discharge, and full air bag is knitted bag be accommodated in accommodation device.
Preferably, also comprise in described step (1) and utilize pressure distribution sensor gather the body weight of child passenger and transfer to the step of ECU; Be filled with the preset value that air bag knits the gaseous tension of bag inside in described step (3) to determine according to child passenger body weight, the concrete corresponding relation of the preset value of child passenger body weight and gaseous tension measures according to the emulation experiment of different weight children.
Described ECU for determining whether gas-bag system works, judge opportunity that air bag knits bag and start to launch, control air intake control valve and knit the extremely suitable state of bag with disappointing control cock to regulate air bag and carry out with wind spring combined action the withdrawal that bag knitted by air bag; Described air bag is knitted bag and is inflated by air intake control valve supply pressurized air, reaches the expansion that bag knitted by air bag; Air bag is regulated to knit the internal gas pressure of bag by cooperation control air intake control valve and disappointing control cock; By disappointing control cock and wind spring combined action, air bag is knitted bag to regain.Air bag is knitted bag and is selected friction coefficient little, fold resistant, and the fabric of damage resistant is made, reusable.Be that bag inflation knitted by air bag when air intake control valve is opened; Described disappointing control cock leads directly to air by bleeder line, and the gas knitted in bag due to air bag is pressurized air, instead of the gas using gas generator to produce, therefore air bag can be knitted a bag internal gas and drains into air by control cock of losing heart.
School of the present invention vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus, the informix gathered by multiple sensor is judged, enables described school vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus provide the best protection at full-time quarter to child passenger.Compared with conventional balloon, the present invention can control described air bag in real time, and to knit the gaseous tension of bag inside constant, can not burst when being squeezed, reusable; Eliminate conventional balloon to knit bag and to detonate the impact injury and situation of burning that cause occupant simultaneously, eliminate the pollution of gas generator to environment.The present invention also can be used for the occupant restrain system of passenger vehicle and car back row.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of school of the present invention vehicle active-type child safety airbag apparatus.
Description of reference numerals is as follows:
Bag knitted by 1-air bag, 2-air intake control valve, and 3-loses heart control cock, 4-wind spring, 5-box body, 6-gas pressure sensor, 7-controller, 8-car speed sensor, 9-main supply switch, 10-pressure distribution sensor, 11-gas feeder.
Detailed description of the invention
For further setting forth technical scheme of the present invention, below in conjunction with accompanying drawing to embodiments of the present invention describe in detail as.
As shown in Figure 1, occupant on seat of the present invention to the pressure of seat, comprise air bag knit bag 1, air intake control valve 2, lose heart control cock 3, wind spring 4, box body 5, gas pressure sensor 6, ECU7, car speed sensor 8, main supply switch 9, pressure distribution sensor 10 and gas feeder 11 form.ECU7 connects air intake control valve 2 respectively with different port, lose heart control cock 3, gas pressure sensor 6, car speed sensor 8, pressure distribution sensor 10 and main supply switch 9.Described pressure distribution sensor 10 is loaded on Chain cushion, is uploaded to ECU7 for detecting the occupant on seat to the pressure of seat and by the pressure information of detection; Described car speed sensor 8 is loaded on axletree, for Real-time Collection vehicle moving velocity and the speed of a motor vehicle of detection is uploaded to ECU7.Described air bag knits bag 1, air intake control valve 2, control cock 3 of losing heart, wind spring 4, box body 5, gas pressure sensor 6, gas feeder 11 form gas-bag system; Wherein box body 5 and wind spring 4 knit the accommodation device of bag 1 as air bag, and box body 5 is fixed on the back side of Chair back, when not using air bag to knit bag 1, knit bag 1 for receiving air bag.Concrete, being connected with wind spring 4 of bag 1 knitted by air bag, and wind spring 4 is loaded in box body 5, and other limits that bag 1 knitted by air bag are connected with box body 5, and described air intake control valve 2, control cock 3 of losing heart, gas pressure sensor 6 are fixed on box body 5.Air intake control valve 2 is connected with gas feeder 11 by admission line, supply pressurized air.Gas feeder 11 is compressed-air actuated generator, such as air compressor etc.Control cock 3 of losing heart is connected with bleeder line, drains into air for air air bag being knitted bag 1 inside.
ECU7 is the core of whole device, can be incorporated in the central controller of vehicle.The pressure of occupant to seat on the seat that ECU7 detects according to pressure distribution sensor 10 judges whether occupant is child passenger, if child passenger, ECU7 makes and starts occupant on seat of the present invention to the command signal of the pressure of seat.Pressure distribution sensor 10 detects further the body weight of child passenger, and is uploaded to ECU7, is convenient to ECU7 and is filled with air bag according to the body weight control of child passenger and knits gaseous tension in bag 1.
By car speed sensor 8, ECU7 judges whether car speed exceedes the threshold value of setting, determine that air bag is knitted bag 1 and whether launched; And knit inflation in bag 1 by controlling air intake control valve 2 to air bag, deployment balloon knits bag 1; Knit the body weight of gas pressure sensor 6 in bag 1 and child passenger according to air bag, regulate air bag to knit bag 1 internal gas pressure size to the body weight be applicable to when front occupant, and close air intake control valve 2.When school bus generation emergency brake or collision; ECU7 judges according to the change that bag 1 internal gas pressure knitted by air bag the severe degree that occupant and air bag are knitted bag 1 and contacted; regulate the aperture of control cock 3 of losing heart; air bag is regulated to knit the pressure of bag 1 internal gas; the passenger protection effect making disappointing energy-absorbing reach best, prevents occupant and front-row seats and safety air bag from knitting bag 1 inner structure generation secondary collision simultaneously.Arrive destination at school bus, pilot control main supply switch 9, ECU7 control cock 3 of control being lost heart is discharged air bag and is knitted the gas in bag 1 and pack up air bag and knit bag 1.
Can produce the object of available protecting in order to reach to child passenger in each moment, the present invention realizes by the following method:
(1) before school bus starts traveling, detect the occupant on seat to the pressure of seat by pressure distribution sensor 10 and transfer to ECU7, according to force value, ECU7 judges whether occupant is child passenger, if children, determine that the work of bag 1 device knitted by school vehicle active-type child safety air bag; Gather the body weight of child passenger simultaneously, and transfer to ECU7, for determining that the preset value of the gas atmosphere of bag 1 knitted by air bag.
(2) after school bus starts traveling, the moving velocity of car speed sensor 8 Real-time Collection vehicle the threshold value transferring to ECU7 and setting compare, when the speed of a motor vehicle exceedes the threshold value of setting, ECU7 opens air intake control valve 2, keep the closedown of disappointing control cock 3, pressurized air is filled with air bag by air intake control valve 2 and knits bag 1 by gas feeder 11, and the application force expansion that bag 1 overcomes wind spring 4 knitted by air bag.
(3) gas pressure sensor 6 that bag 1 inside knitted by air bag detects in real time air bag and knits the air pressure in bag 1 and be sent to ECU7, after the air bag gas atmosphere of knitting in bag 1 reaches preset value, close air intake control valve 2, make air bag knit bag 1 internal pressure and be maintained.Concrete, the preset value that the gas atmosphere in bag 1 knitted by air bag is determined according to the body weight of child passenger, and the concrete corresponding relation of the preset value of child passenger body weight and gas atmosphere measures according to the emulation experiment of different weight children.
(4) when ECU7 is according to the Vehicle Speed judgement vehicle emergency brake of car speed sensor 8 Real-time Collection or when colliding, child passenger and air bag are knitted bag 1 and are come in contact, ECU7 is according to the gas pressure information of gas pressure sensor 6 Real-time Collection, by controlling the aperture of disappointing control cock 3, knitted the disappointing absorption collision energy of bag 1 by air bag, regulate air bag to knit the pressure of bag 1 internal gas.Making occupant when there is not secondary collision, being supplied to occupant and farthest protecting.
(5) when school bus arrives destination, after traveling terminates, by adjustment main supply switch 9, control by ECU7 control cock 3 of losing heart, the air that air bag is knitted in bag 1 is expelled to air, and air bag is knitted bag 1 and regained in box body 5 under the effect of wind spring 4.