A treatise on crash sensing for automotive air bag systems

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 220-234

  Chan, Ching Yao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bag; Automotive safety; Crash sensing; Occupant restraints

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

CRASH SENSORS;

AUTOMOBILE AIR BAGS;

EID: 0036613469     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2002.1011259     Document Type: Article

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