APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING IMPACT ON VEHICLE, AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMING IMPACT ON VEHICLE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for determining impact on a vehicle, and an apparatus for informing the impact on the vehicle, capable of determining that the impact is made on the vehicle, and informing an occupant thereof, by a simple constitution.;SOLUTION: A controller 3 determines that the impact is made on the vehicle based on a detection signal from seating sensors 2R, 2L provided on a seat cushion, and informs an occupant that the impact is made by an in-vehicle speaker 5 or an informing light emitter 6. The controller 3 determines that an impact is made on the vehicle, when detecting that a detection load becomes a tensile direction load equal to or higher than W2 within a threshold time T1 after detecting that a load detected by at least either of the pair of the seating sensors 2R, 2L is a compressive direction load equal to or higher than W1, or when detecting that the detection load becomes a compressive direction load equal to or higher than W4 within a threshold time T2 after detecting that the detection load is a tensile direction load equal to or higher than W3.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT