Abstract: An airbag deployment sensor has a cartridge containing a quantity of tape one end of which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag cushion. Deployment of the cushion pulls tape from the cartridge at a rate that is monitored by transmitting light through the tape, or by detecting the presence of metalized, or magnetic shielding portions, of the tape.

Abstract: An airbag deployment sensor has a cartridge containing a quantity of tape one end of which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag cushion. Deployment of the cushion pulls tape from the cartridge at a rate that is monitored by transmitting light through the tape, or by detecting the presence of metalized, or magnetic shielding portions, of the tape.

Abstract: An airbag deployment sensor has a cartridge containing a quantity of tape one end of which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag cushion. Deployment of the cushion pulls tape from the cartridge at a rate that is monitored by transmitting light through the tape, or by detecting the presence of metalized, or magnetic shielding portions, of the tape.

Abstract: An airbag deployment sensor has a cartridge containing a quantity of tape one end of which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag cushion. Deployment of the cushion pulls tape from the cartridge at a rate that is monitored by transmitting light through the tape, or by detecting the presence of metalized, or magnetic shielding portions, of the tape.

Abstract: An airbag deployment sensor has a cartridge containing a quantity of tape one end of which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag cushion. Deployment of the cushion pulls tape from the cartridge at a rate that is monitored by transmitting light through the tape, or by detecting the presence of metalized, or magnetic shielding portions, of the tape.

Abstract: An airbag deployment sensor has a cartridge containing a quantity of tape one end of which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag cushion. Deployment of the cushion pulls tape from the cartridge at a rate that is monitored by transmitting light through the tape, or by detecting the presence of metalized, or magnetic shielding portions, of the tape.

Abstract: An airbag deployment sensor has a cartridge containing a quantity of tape one end of which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag cushion. Deployment of the cushion pulls tape from the cartridge at a rate that is monitored by transmitting light through the tape, or by detecting the presence of metalized, or magnetic shielding portions, of the tape.

Abstract: An airbag deployment sensor has a cartridge containing a quantity of tape one end of which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag cushion. Deployment of the cushion pulls tape from the cartridge at a rate that is monitored by transmitting light through the tape, or by detecting the presence of metalized, or magnetic shielding portions, of the tape.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a force applied using a pressure sensor, an alternating voltage applied to the pressure sensor, and means for detecting the output voltage from the sensor to determine the force applied. One embodiment applies the alternating voltage using a DC input voltage and a microcontroller for switching the voltage applied to the sensor.

Abstract: A horn or other vehicle device can be activated or controlled by attenuating light. A horn switch, or an optical switch, has a light source, light detector, and a pathway for light extending through a void. The switches are activated by attenuating the light emitted by the light source. The light can be attenuated by at least partially obstructing the light or by modifying the orientation of either the light detector or the light source.

Abstract: A vertical amplifier provides a deflection or yoke current independent of the yoke impedance or other impedances in the yoke current path. The amplifier comprises a general-purpose operatonal amplifier that develops an output voltage in a manner that maintains identical voltages at its inverting and non-inverting inputs. A feedback resistance is connected in the yoke current path, thereby developing a voltage indicative of the yoke current. As a result, the yoke current waveform can be made identical to or a desired variation of a current commanding voltage waveform applied to the non-inverting input. A particular variation of the feedback resistance transforms an S-shaped current waveform into a sawtooth voltage waveform, thereby providing the desired deflection linearity.

Abstract: A vertical deflection amplifier includes a preamplifier having an input at which is applied a DC feedback signal for the stabilization of the amplifier's DC output. In order to assure an undistorted or unattenuated vertical deflection upon initial turn-on of the receiver, a fast-start circuit superimposes a transient voltage on the DC feedback signal. The fast-start circuit allows the amplifier's output to reach its quiescent DC output level in a period of time that is substantially shorter than the time constant of a sampling network from which the DC feedback signal is derived.

Abstract: In a cathode ray tube scanning system having a deflection yoke with horizontal and vertical deflection windings coupled to deflection current sources having horizontal and vertical scan rates, a top-bottom pin-cushion correction circuit includes a saturable reactor having a control winding coupled by a unidirectional conduction device to a flyback pulse signal source with a resonating capacitor coupling the unidirectional conduction device and control winding to a potential reference level and an output winding coupled to the current source at the vertical scan rate and shunted by a tuning means including a capacitor.