|Numéro de publication||US5436838 A|
|Type de publication||Octroi|
|Numéro de demande||US 08/124,229|
|Date de publication||25 juil. 1995|
|Date de dépôt||21 sept. 1993|
|Date de priorité||21 sept. 1992|
|État de paiement des frais||Payé|
|Autre référence de publication||CA2106603A1, CA2106603C, DE69315653D1, DE69315653T2, EP0590476A2, EP0590476A3, EP0590476B1|
|Numéro de publication||08124229, 124229, US 5436838 A, US 5436838A, US-A-5436838, US5436838 A, US5436838A|
|Cessionnaire d'origine||Nec Corporation|
|Exporter la citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Citations de brevets (13), Référencé par (89), Classifications (7), Événements juridiques (6)|
|Liens externes: USPTO, Cession USPTO, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a vehicle crash detection apparatus for an Inflatable occupant restraint system.
2. Description of the Related Art
A conventional crash detection apparatus for an inflatable occupant restraint system, or "airbags", makes use of an accelerometer and an offset integrator. The accelerometer generates upon crash impact a signal representative of the vehicle acceleration/deceleration, while the offset integrator subtracts the maximum acceleration value that is encountered during normal drive from the output of the accelerometer and integrates the subtracted acceleration signal over a preset time interval. The integrated signal is then compared with a threshold value and when the threshold is exceeded the restraint system Is operated. Since the airbag must be fully deployed before the occupant is tilted 12.5 centimeters forwards when the vehicle crashes at a medium speed, and the airbag deployment time is approximately 30 milliseconds, there is a small amount of time left for the crash detection apparatus to make a crash/non-crash discrimination.
While the prior art crash detection apparatus is useful for crash events where a sharp vehicle speed variation occurs upon impact, it fails to make a correct discrimination between rough roads and pole crashes where the initial impact on the vehicle is rather small.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide precision vehicle crash detection capable of making a reliable discrimination between crash and noncrash events which are currently indistinguishable.
The object of the present invention is obtained by extracting those frequency components of the output of the accelerometer which occur uniquely during a vehicle crash and using the extracted frequency components as a derision making factor.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, the output signal from an accelerometer is integrated at Intervals to derive a velocity signal. Those frequency components of the accelerometer signal which appear uniquely during the vehicle crash are extracted and the amplitude of the extracted components is squared to produce an impact energy signal. A decision is made on the velocity signal and the impact energy signal, and according to this decision, the occupant restraint system is operated. Preferably, the velocity signal is compared with a first threshold value and when it exceeds the first threshold value, the restraint system is operated. A sum of the velocity signal and the impact energy signal is produced and compared with a second threshold value, and the impact energy signal is compared with a third threshold value. The restraint system is operated when the sum exceeds the second threshold value or when the impact energy signal exceeds the third threshold value.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, the accelerometer signal at longer intervals to produce a long-term velocity signal and at shorter intervals to produce a short-term velocity signal. Frequency components of the accelerometer signal which appear uniquely during the vehicle crash are extracted and the amplitude of the extracted components is squared to produce an impact energy signal. A decision is made on the long-term and short-term velocity signals and the impact energy signal, and the occupant restraint system is operated in accordance with the decision. Preferably, the long-term velocity signal is compared with a first threshold value and when it exceeds the first threshold value, the restraint system is operated. The short-term velocity signal and the impact energy signal are compared with a second and a third threshold value, respectively. The restraint system is operated when both of the short-term velocity signal and impact energy signal simultaneously exceed their respective threshold values.
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a crash detection circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the bandpass filter of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a graphic representation of the frequency response of the bandpass filter;
FIG. 4 is a crash/non-crash discrimination map associated with the embodiment of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a waveform diagram showing various waveforms appearing in FIG. 1 during frontal crash, padded barrier crash and rough road drive;
FIG. 6 Is a waveform diagram showing waveforms of the accelerometer, integrator and limiter in the case of an angle crash;
FIG. 7 is block diagram of a crash detection circuit according to a modified embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a crash/non-crash discrimination map associated with the embodiment of FIG. 7; and FIG. 9 is a waveform diagram showing various waveforms appearing In FIG. 7 during a frontal crash.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown a crash detection circuit of the present invention mounted in a vehicle for operating an inflatable restraint system, or what is called "airbags", when the vehicle encounters a crash. The crash detection circuit includes a semiconductor accelerometer 10 which consists of a strain gauge secured on a semiconductor substrate and makes use of the piezoelectric effect of the semiconductor to produce an accelerometer signal representative of the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle when it is mechanically deformed upon the application of an impact force.
To allow digital processing of the accelerometer signal without foldover (aliasing) distortion, an analog lowpass filter 11 is connected to the accelerometer 10 to cut off the frequency components of the accelerometer signal higher than twice the sampling frequency at which it is sampled and processed by subsequent processing circuitry. The lowpass-filtered signal is applied to a sampler 12 where it is sampled at, say, 1-ms intervals End fed into an analog-to-digital converter 13 where the sampled values are converted to a digitized signal.
The digitized accelerometer signal is applied to a sliding window integrator 14 where digital samples are stored and a predetermined number of samples In a successive window of 90 milliseconds are integrated to produce a signal representative of the instantaneous velocity of the vehicle. The integration is repeated at 90-ms intervals to update the velocity value. It is found that under certain conditions vehicle deceleration continues excessively after the instant of crash, and the accelerometer signal becomes rich with low frequency components, producing a large negative integration value. Since the excessive negative value of the integrator would cause a delay in making a crash/non-crash decision, a limiter 15 is connected to the output of integrator 14 to prevent the velocity signal from going negative below a certain critical value. The output of limiter 15 is multiplied by a coefficient K1 in a multiplier 16 to produce a velocity parameter K1 ΔV.
Vehicle crash can be considered as a plastic deformation of a composite of numerous resilient materials upon the application of impact. It is found that the deceleration signal contains unique frequency components when a vehicle experiences a crash. The frequency distribution of the deceleration signal that markedly shows a crash event varies depending on the type of vehicles. According to the present invention, among the various waveforms that are superimposed on a first quarter wavelength of the fundamental frequency of the sinusoidal deceleration waveform generated upon impact those frequency components having characteristic waveform fluctuations are extracted. These frequency components are considered to arise from different structural components of the vehicle as they are broken, bent and sheared upon crash impact. Typically, the characteristic frequency components are extracted from the range between 20 Hz and 200 Hz. For this purpose, the output of A/D converter 13 is applied to a bandpass filter 17 where the characteristic frequency components are extracted. The present invention evaluates the amount of a crash impact from the extracted frequency components.
As shown in detail in FIG. 2, the bandpass filter 17 includes a first adder 30 to which the output of A/D converter 13 is applied. A tapped delay fine comprising a series of one-sample delay elements, or delay-line taps 311 ˜-314 is connected to the output of adder 30 to produce a succession of tap signals. Coefficient multipliers 321 ˜324 are connected respectively to the outputs of delay-line taps 311 ˜314 for weighting the tap signals with tap-weight coefficients a1, -a2, a3 and -a4. The weighted tap signals are summed in adder 30 with the output of A/D converter 13. The output of the first adder 30 is applied recursively to the tapped delay line and to a second adder 34. A coefficient multiplier 33 is connected to the output of delay-line tap 312 to multiply the tap signal from delay unit 31z by "--2" and applied to adder 34 to which the output of delay-line tap 314 is also applied. The output of adder 34 is multiplied by a coefficient "b" in a multiplier 35 for delivery to a later stage. The transfer function H(z) of the bandpass filter 17 is given by:
H(z)=b(1-z-2)2 /(1-a1 z-1 +a2 z-2 -a3 z-3 +a4 z-4)
By choosing the tap-weight coefficients and the coefficient "b" as a1 =2.2979, a2 =1.9649, a3 =0.8732, a4 =0.2194, and b=0.7012, the bandpass filter 17 has a passband of 20 Hz to 200 Hz as shown in FIG. 3.
Since the vehicle speed, upon impact, decays following a cosine curve, the impact energy of the vehicle during the zero- and 90-degree phase angles of the cosine curve can be approximated as being equal to the square value of the vehicle's speed variations. For this reason, the amplitude of the frequency components extracted by the bandpass filter 17 is squared in a squaring circuit 18 to produce a signal ΔE representative of the impact energy regardless of the polarities of the deceleration signal. The impact energy signal is then weighted by a coefficient K2 in a multiplier 19 to produce an impact parameter ΔE.
The instantaneous speed parameter ΔV and impact parameter ΔE are supplied to a deployment decision circuit 20 for supplying a deployment signal to the airbags, not shown, in accordance with decision thresholds indicated in a crash discrimination map (FIG. 4) in which vehicle velocity ΔV is plotted as a function of impact energy ΔE. In FIG. 4, different types of vehicle crash events and non-crash events are indicated in the shape of circles and ellipsis. The velocity and impact energy values falling within the boundary of any of these regions are those actually obtained by experiments at 30-ms after the instant of crash/non-crash event. A line 40 defines a first threshold R1 and is drawn between padded barrier crashes (in which the vehicle crashes with a barrier padded with shock absorbing material) and under-carriage bumps. A line 41 defines a second threshold R2 which is equal to the relation K1 ΔV +K2 ΔE drawn between frontal crash events and under-carriage bumps. Finally, a line 42 defines a third threshold R3 that separates pole crash events and rough roads. The decision circuit 20 produces a deployment signal when either of these thresholds is exceeded. Specifically, It includes comparators 21, 22 and 23 and an adder 24. Comparator 21 compares the velocity parameter K1 ΔV with a reference voltage representing the first threshold R1 and produces a deployment signal when the velocity parameter exceeds the reference voltage. This occurs when the vehicle experiences a padded barrier crash. The velocity parameter K1 ΔV and impact energy parameter K2 ΔE are summed together by the adder 24 and compared by comparator 22 with a reference voltage representing the second threshold R2 to produce a deployment signal when the summed value exceeds the reference in a frontal crash event. Comparator 23 makes comparison between the impact energy K2 ΔE and a reference voltage representing the third threshold R3 and produces a deployment signal when the reference voltage is exceeded as the vehicle experiences a pole crash.
In the case of a frontal crash at 50 kilometer per hour (FIG. 5), both acceleration (G) and velocity (ΔV) rapidly rise on impact, and the sum of impact energy and velocity exceeds the threshold value R2 of comparator 22 within 10 milliseconds from the start of crash. In the case of a padded barrier crash at 30 kmph, the velocity (ΔV) exceeds the threshold R1 of comparator 21 at about 80 milliseconds from the start of the crash. During a rough road drive, the velocity parameter is lower than threshold R1 and the bandpass filter 17 produces a sharply rising output, but its amplitude is lower than threshold R3. With prior art techniques, false decisions are often made In discriminating a rough road event from a pole crash event. Since the decision threshold R3 of pole crash events is set higher than any of impact energies which might be produced on rough roads, no false deployment signal is generated by the crash detector of the present invention in any rough road conditions. In the case of pole crashes, the impact energy exceeds threshold while the velocity is lower than threshold R1 and the combined value of the velocity and the impact energy is also lower than threshold R2.
As illustrated In FIG. 6, the use of the limiter 15 is particularly useful for crash events where the velocity signal tends to go negative for an extended period of time and would otherwise cause decision delays. The output of limiter 15 goes positive earlier as indicated by broken lines than the output of integrator 14 does, contributing to the increases in the signal components which are significant for deployment decision.
The present invention is modified as shown in FIG. 7 which employs different decision thresholds from those used in the previous embodiment. Similar to the previous embodiment, the modified crash detection circuit comprises a 90-ms (long-term) sliding window integrator 40, a limiter 41 and a multiply-by-K11 multiplier 42 to produce a long-term velocity signal ΔV1, and digital bandpass filter 445, squaring circuit 47 and multiply-by-K2 multiplier 48 to produce an impact energy signal ΔE. Similar to the previous embodiment, long-term integrator 40 provides integration of the output of A/D converter 13 at 90-ms intervals and limiter 41 has the same lower critical value as limiter 15. The modified embodiment differs from the previous embodiment by the inclusion of a short-term sliding window integrator 43, a limiter 44 and a multiply-by-K12 multiplier 45 to produce a velocity signal ΔV2. The short-term integrator 43 provides integration of the output of A/D converter 13 at 30-ms ms intervals. The lower critical value of limiter 44 is slightly higher than that of limiter 41. The velocity signals ΔV1, ΔV2 and impact energy signal ΔE are supplied to a deployment decision circuit 50 which makes a deployment decision according to a decision map shown in FIG. 8.
As illustrated in FIG. 8, a line 60 defines a first threshold R1 and is drawn between padded barrier crashes and under-carriage bumps. A horizontal line 62 corresponds to a second threshold R'2 and is drawn between frontal crash events and rough roads. Finally, a line 61 defines a third threshold R'3 that separates pole crash events and rough roads.
Returning to FIG. 7, the decision circuit 50 includes comparators 51, 52 and 53. Comparator 51 makes a comparison between the velocity signal ΔV1 and a reference voltage corresponding to the first threshold R'1 and produces a deployment signal if the latter is exceeded. The output of comparator 51 is passed through an OR gate 55 to the airbags. Comparator 52 compares the velocity signal ΔV2 with a reference voltage corresponding to the second threshold R'2 and produces a deployment signal if the latter Is exceeded. Comparator 53 compares the impact energy signal ΔE with a reference voltage corresponding to the third threshold R'3 and produces a deployment signal if the latter is exceeded when a padded barrier crash occurs. The output of comparator 53 is applied to a pulse stretcher 56 where the it is stretched in duration by a monostable multivibrator 57. An OR gate 58 is connected to the outputs of both comparator 53 and monostable multivibrator 57 so that the output of OR gate 58 goes high in quick response to the output signal of the comparator 53. The outputs of comparator 52 and OR gate 58 are combined by an AND gate 54 whose output is coupled to OR gate 55. AND gate 54 thus produces a deployment signal when the short-term velocity signal ΔV2 and the impact energy signal ΔE are time coincident with each other. Such coincidences occur when the vehicle experiences a frontal crash or a pole crash.
The waveforms of signals generated at various points of the embodiment of FIG. 7 in a frontal crash at 50 kmph are shown in FIG. 9. The output of squaring circuit 47 exceeds the threshold R'3 within the period of 10 milliseconds from the beginning of the crash, causing comparator 53 to produce an output pulse 70, which Is stretched by pulse stretcher 56 into a pulse 71. Immediately following the leading 28 edge of the pulse 71, the output of short-term Integrator 43 exceeds the threshold R'2 and comparator 52 produces an output pulse 72 which coincides with the pulse 71, producing a deployment pulse 73 at the output of AND gate 54.
The foregoing description shows only preferred embodiments of the present invention. Various modifications are apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention which is only limited by the appended claims. For example, the digital circuitry connected to the output of A/D converter 13 can be implemented with a digital signal processor. Therefore, the embodiments shown and described are only illustrative, not restrictive.
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