Patents by Inventor Porfirio Garcia, Jr.

Porfirio Garcia, Jr. 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).

  • Method and apparatus for distinguishing between deployment events and non-deployment events in an SIR system
    Patent number: 5583771
    Abstract: A pattern recognition system is utilized in a supplementary inflatable restraint (SIR) system to distinguish between deployment and non-deployment events. The pattern recognition system preferably includes dedicated hardware or a microprocessor programmed to perform a neural network simulation utilizing crash data in the form of vehicle acceleration data. Training and trial vectors are generated from the data to train and, subsequently, test the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Delco Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: David D. Lynch, James F. Long, Rex P. Brumbach, Jr., Porfirio Garcia, Jr., Stephen J. Kiselewich, Douglas D. Turner