Patents by Inventor Christopher Hibner

Christopher Hibner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for adjusting a zero point of a seat load sensing system
    Patent number: 7684913
    Abstract: A method (60) for adjusting the zero point of a vehicle seat weight sensing system (10) includes the step of determining a zero point error (64) of the seat weight sensing system. The method (60) also includes the step of adjusting the zero point error (68) in response to determining that the zero point error was influenced by an object on the vehicle seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: TRW Automotive U.S. LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Hibner, Raymond J. David, Nick L. Smith
  • System and process for adjusting a zero point of a seat load sensing system
    Publication number: 20070010935
    Abstract: A process for adjusting the zero point of a system (10) for sensing weight on a seat (12) of a vehicle includes the steps of correcting only negative zero points errors during an ignition cycle of the vehicle and correcting positive zero point errors after the vehicle ignition cycle ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Walid Aldeeb, Raymond David, Christopher Hibner
  • Method and apparatus for controlling a front actuatable restraining device using side satellite safing sensors
    Publication number: 20070005207
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) for controlling a vehicle actuatable occupant restraining system including a crash accelerometer (32) for sensing frontal crash acceleration and providing a first crash acceleration signal indicative thereof. A side crash accelerometer (46, 48) senses transverse crash acceleration and provides a second crash acceleration signal indicative thereof. A controller (50) actuates the actuatable occupant restraining system in response to the first crash acceleration signal and the transverse crash acceleration signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Chek-Peng Foo, Kevin Weiss, Christopher Hibner, Nikhil Mudaliar
  • System and method for drift compensation in a seat load sensing system
    Publication number: 20060175096
    Abstract: A method (60) for adjusting a sensed load W(s)of a vehicle seat weight sensing system (10) includes the step (64) of determining a rate of change {dot over (W)}(t),{dot over (W)}avg in the sensed load. The method (60) also includes the step (66) of determining the likelihood of drift in the sensed load W(s) in response to the determined rate of change {dot over (W)}(t),{dot over (W)}avg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Christopher Hibner, Raymond David
  • System and method for adjusting a zero point of a seat load sensing system
    Publication number: 20060167604
    Abstract: A method (60) for adjusting the zero point of a vehicle seat weight sensing system (10) includes the step of determining a zero point error (64) of the seat weight sensing system. The method (60) also includes the step of adjusting the zero point error (68) in response to determining that the zero point error was influenced by an object on the vehicle seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Christopher Hibner, Raymond David, Nick Smith