摘要:
An input protection circuit for an electronic circuit includes a switching circuit operable between an ON state and an OFF state for generating an input for the electronic circuit, a first circuit responsive to an excess level of input for forming a clamping circuit across a first resistor for shunting an excess level input, a second circuit monitoring an input from the switching means for detecting a state of the switching circuit for producing an ON/OFF signal depending upon the detected state of the switching circuit, the second circuit including a second resistor which forms a series circuit with the first resistor and the switching circuits while the switching circuits is in an ON state. The switching circuits is operated to an ON position for establishing the series circuit for setting the level of the input at a minimum level and to an OFF position for opening the series circuit for setting the level of the input at a maximum level. The second circuit is set at a threshold level to be compared with the input level for detecting the state of the switching circuit, the threshold level being set at a level higher than the minimum level and lower than the maximum level so as to assure detection of the state of the switching circuits.
摘要:
An input pressure detecting device is arranged in an input side of a pneumatic brake booster, which comprises an elastic member having a given portion which expands when a pressure is applied to the elastic member, a pressure sensor for issuing, upon receiving a pressure, a signal representative of the intensity of the pressure applied thereto, and an axially movable piston intimately disposed between the given portion of the elastic member and the pressure sensor. Upon application of force to the elastic member due to depression of the brake pedal, the elastic member is compressed causing the given portion to expand and thus applying a corresponding but small pressure to the pressure sensor through the piston.
摘要:
A testing circuit for a radar-operated vehicle safety assurance system includes a test signal generator for generating an artificial intermediate frequency return signal. The radar system is switched on a manual command signal from the normal operating mode to an under-test mode to accept the artificial signal to determine the speed of the vehicle relative to a hypothetical target and the instantaneous value of the distance to the hypothetical target. The radar system includes a vehicle roadway speed sensor which normally supplies the system with the instantaneous speed value of the vehicle. When the system is switched to the under-test mode, a signal indicative of a predetermined vehicle road speed is applied to the radar to determine the safety distance to the hypothetical target. When the instantaneous value of the distance to the hypothetical target corresponds to the safety distance, an alarm signal is delivered from the radar system. This signal is checked to see if it occurs within a preselected time interval so as to ensure that the radar system functions properly.
摘要:
An apparatus for testing a cross-coil instrument having a pointer, a sensor for sensing a condition to produce a sensor signal indicative of the sensed condition, and a converter coupled to the sensor for converting the sensor signal to a deflection of the pointer. The apparatus comprises a fault detector coupled to the sensor for detecting a disconnection fault to produce a command signal, and a test signal generator responsive to the command signal for generating a predetermined test signal to the converter, thereby moving the pointer to a predetermined position. The operation accuracy of the cross-coil instrument may be checked from the difference between the actual and predetermined pointer positions when a connector provided in a signal line between the sensor and the fault detector is pulled out.
摘要:
A vehicle collision preventing apparatus determines the danger by an output of a radar for detecting the distance to an obstacle and the relative velocity in a danger determining circuit wherein the distance to the obstacle and the relative velocity at the present are estimated from the data given before disappearing the data of the radar by an estimate arithmetic circuit when a signal reflecting from the obstacle reduces to be incapable of detecting the obstacle by the radar.
摘要:
A radar-operated collision avoidance system for a roadway vehicle comprises a radar device for sensing the vehicle speed relative to an object and its distance thereto to decide whether the vehicle is approaching the object at a dangerously high speed. A minimum allowable distance represented by a digital code is stored in a memory location within an array of rows and columns and read out in response to a sensed vehicle speed relative to the roadway and to a sensed magnitude of steering movement. The minimum allowable distance is compared with the distance sensed by the radar to determine that the decision is valid only when the latter is smaller than the former.
摘要:
An automotive radar is provided with a device for sensing the location of the entry and exit ways of a zone as the vehicle passes therethrough to reduce the detectable range of the radar upon the vehicle entering the zone so that false targets within the range-controlled zone are discriminated from valid targets. The device restores the range upon the vehicle leaving the zone to normal range.
摘要:
A relay valve is operatively disposed between a pressurized air source and a work chamber of a brake booster. The relay valve has a pilot chamber so that the relay valve can feed the work chamber with a pressurized air, the pressure of which corresponding to that of a pressure applied to the pilot chamber. Electromagnetic valves are arranged to selectively connect the pilot chamber with the pressurized air source and the atmosphere. The valves are so controlled by an electronic control unit that the pilot chamber is supplied with pressurized air the pressure of which being determined in accordance with a brake pedal force applied from a brake pedal to an input means of the booster.
摘要:
A moving obstacle detection system for an automotive vehicle utilizing a doppler effect of the transmitted wave against an obstacle which runs in front of the vehicle such as another vehicle. The system generally comprises: (a) a doppler radar unit which operates so as to produce a doppler signal when the vehicle is halted; (b) a detecting means which detects the changing phase of a doppler signal produced from the doppler signal; (c) a discriminating means which discriminates the departure of another vehicle from the front area of the vehicle and the intersection of another vehicle or pedestrian traverse to the vehicle on a basis of the frequency changing rate or amplitude level changing rate of the detected doppler signal; and (d) an alarm unit which produces an alarm in a predetermined form only when the departure of another vehicle from the front detection area of the doppler radar unit or in the case when another vehicle straightly approaches or departed from the vehicle and in the case when another vehicle or pedestrian goes across the vehicle, separately from each other.
摘要:
A radar-operated vehicle safety assurance system includes a radar device which detects the vehicle relative speed or range to an object. A safety limit value of the detected operating parameter is computed by means of a safety range detection or safety speed detection circuit as a function of a detected operating parameter. A visual indicator is provided which visually indicates the difference between the detected value and the computed safety limit value to allow the vehicle driver to become continuously aware of the marginal conditions of the vehicle in relation to the safety limit.