| 摘要 |
A control system is provided for an occupant protection apparatus including one or more air bags. The control system is capable of avoiding an increase in manufacturing costs by minimizing the number of components and by utilizing a common circuit portion in a pair of activation circuits, while maintaining a rated current substantially equal to that of completely separate activation circuits. If a collision of a vehicle occurs, first and second activation circuits are activated based on an integrated value DELTAV of a deceleration measured with the G-sensor. If an activation time period of the second activation circuit happens to overlap with an activation time period of the first activation circuit, a control unit activates the second activation circuit upon completion of the activation of the first activation circuit. Therefore, the number of components of the control system can be reduced. Also, since the first and second activation circuits are not activated at the same time, a portion of the activation circuits that is common to both of the first and second activation circuits can be inside of a circuit that has the same capacity as conventional circuits.
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