Abstract: An apparatus for detecting collision of a vehicle for an air-bag system, the apparatus comprising means for operating said air-bag system when the signal from a generating means corresponding to a shock to the vehicle exceeds a predetermined value. A switch means manually subjects said operating means to unoperated state for a predetermined period. Whereby an erroneous operation of an air bag system is prevented by the switch means even when a shock is applied to the apparatus for detecting a collision of vehicles while it is being inspected or repaired.

Abstract: A fault of a trigger resistor or a squib resistor of an air bag system is monitored together with other resistors by utilizing a balanced Wheatstone bridge for providing an inexpensive and highly reliable fault detector, wherein first and second junctions of the Wheatstone bridge are connected alternately to a dc amplifier circuit with use of first and second switching circuits for applying a voltage across the squib resistor and a reference voltage alternately on an input terminal of the dc amplifier circuit, amplified voltages are fed from the dc amplifier circuit to a decision circuit to check whether or not the voltage across the squib resistor is within an allowable limit from the reference voltage, the amplified reference voltage is fed from the dc amplifier circuit to a voltage regulating circuit, which has a feedback circuit to the dc amplifier circuit, with use of a third switching circuit for adjusting an output of the voltage regulator to the center value of the input voltage range of the decision

Abstract: An automotive navigation system wherein a memory included therein has not stored therein a picture information of a map itself but instead has stored therein geographical names and positional information thereof. When the geographical names of a departure point and a destination point are entered through an input unit, a control unit reads out from the memory the geographical names and the positions of the points. A CRT displays marks respectively indicating the departure point, the destination point, and the current position of a vehicle on an adequately reduced scale on the display scope. The arrangement of this automotive navigation system can perform a fully practical navigation function even with a small sized and cheap memory and arithmetic unit.

Abstract: A time division multiple transmission control apparatus which comprises a central processing device for generating a reference timing signal having a predetermined frequency and a time division multiple signal having substantially the same frequency for controlling a plurality of electrical devices during predetermined time periods, terminal processing devices for controlling each electrical device during a different predetermined time period under the control of said reference timing signal and said time division multiple signal and means for generating a phase difference between said reference timing signal and said time division multiple signal.