US 7070202

Patent Overview: US7070202B2 — "Side Impact Sensor Systems"

Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US7070202](/patent/US7070202)/en (fetched 2026-09-23)

Title: Side impact sensor systems

Patent number: US7070202B2

Inventors: David S. Breed; Vittorio Castelli; Anthony S. Pruszenski, Jr. (per the supplied text)

Original assignee: Automotive Technologies International Inc. The supplied text also lists a "Current Assignee" of American Vehicular Sciences LLC, and a reassignment record dated 2012-04-10.

Key dates (from the supplied text):

• Priority date (stated as an assumption, not a legal conclusion): 1993-09-16
• Application number: US11/058,337
• Filing date: 2005-02-15
• Publication of US20050156417A1: 2005-07-21
• Publication/grant of US7070202B2: 2006-07-04
• Anticipated expiration: 2013-09-16
• Legal status: Expired – Fee Related

Purpose and plain-language scope (based only on supplied text): The patent concerns sensor systems for detecting side impacts on a vehicle. The supplied text identifies recurring concepts including a sensor, an inflator, a vehicle, a housing, and an airbag, along with acceleration, response, coupling, and occupant-protection-related terms appearing across the claims, abstract, and description. The inventor list, priority chain (notably US08/101,017 and US09/114,962), and family members (e.g., US7481453B2, US7648164B2, US8346438B2) indicate a family directed to side-impact sensing and airbag deployment.

What this excerpt does not establish:

• It does not reproduce the claims, abstract, or description text, so the precise claimed scope cannot be verified from the excerpt.
• The listed "current assignee" is expressly stated by the source as possibly inaccurate; no ownership conclusion is drawn here.
• Priority dates and legal status are stated in the source as assumptions, not legal conclusions.
• No litigation, validity, or prior-art (beyond listed references) analysis is provided.

All statements above derive solely from the supplied source text.