Patents by Inventor Mukesh J. Amin

Mukesh J. Amin 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).

  • Sensing system for vehicle passive restrants
    Patent number: 6591932
    Abstract: A sensing system for vehicle passive restraints including a restraints control module (38) in communication with a frontal impact accelerometer (40) and a pair of side impact sensors (46) mounted remotely in satellite sensor housings (44). Also mounted within one of the satellite housings (44) is a roll rate sensor (52), employing a common communication link (48) with one of the side impact sensors (46), for communicating with the restraints control module (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Inventors: J. B. Drummond, Mukesh J. Amin
  • Method and apparatus for detecting rollover of an automotive vehicle
    Patent number: 6282474
    Abstract: A rollover sensing system (12) that may be used in the determination of when to deploy restraints in the vehicle. The rollover sensing system (12) may include lateral acceleration sensors (32), a roll rate sensor (18) and a roll angle detector (20). A control circuit (16) determines a predetermined rollover threshold in response to the roll rate and roll angle detector (20) and calculates an adjusted threshold as a function of the predetermined rollover threshold and the lateral acceleration. The control circuit (16) generates a control signal in response to the adjusted threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford C. Chou, Fubang Wu, Mukesh J. Amin
  • Airbag system with inflator gas reactant surface
    Patent number: 6123360
    Abstract: An inflatable restraint system for an automotive vehicle has an inflatable restraint packaged within a module housing in an uninflated state and is operatively connected to an inflator for receiving inflator gas therefrom for movement to an inflated position within the vehicle. The inflatable restraint has a gas reactant substance on an interior surface which is reactive with the inflator gas to prolong inflation of the inflatable restraint in the inflated position at a predetermined pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Inventors: Mukesh J. Amin, David Webster Clark