US 7,320,379 B2
Device for occupant protection in a motor vehicle and for anti-theft protection of the motor vehicle
Janos Gila, Mödling (Austria); Jürgen Herold, Aschaffenburg (Germany); Klaus Hofbeck, Neumarkt (Germany); Wolfgang Konrad, Mödling (Austria); Birgit Rösel, Regensburg (Germany); and Stephan Zecha, Hösbach (Germany)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (Germany)
Appl. No. 10/536,042
PCT Filed Oct. 31, 2003, PCT No. PCT/DE03/03622
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date May 20, 2005,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/045916, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 03, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 102 54 203 (DE), filed on Nov. 20, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2006/0043710 A1, Mar. 02, 2006
Int. Cl. B60R 25/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 180—287  [340/426.16; 280/735; 307/10.2] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for occupant protection in a motor vehicle and for anti-theft protection of the motor vehicle, the device comprising:
an airbag having a filler device for inflating said airbag with gas;
a transceiver device for transmitting electromagnetic waves;
an occupant protection evaluation device connected to said transceiver device;
at least one occupant protection interrogation unit disposed on said airbag, said transceiver device interrogating said occupant protection interrogation unit contactlessly resulting in information regarding a degree of deployment and/or a speed of deployment of said airbag being provided to said occupant protection evaluation device;
an anti-theft protection evaluation device; and
at least one portable anti-theft protection interrogation unit being interrogated contactlessly by said transceiver device resulting in further information regarding an authorization of said anti-theft protection interrogation unit and/or regarding a distance of said anti-theft protection interrogation unit from said transceiver device on a basis of a signal returned by said anti-theft protection interrogation unit, said further information being provided to said anti-theft protection evaluation device.