US 12,434,627 B2
Data link through vehicle safety system
Valentin Stoia, Bucharest (RO); Florentina-Giulia Stoica, Bucharest (RO); and Simon Kahn, Jerusalem (IL)
Assigned to Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US)
Filed by Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US)
Filed on May 2, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/653,058.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/554,030, filed on Feb. 15, 2024.
Prior Publication US 2025/0263014 A1, Aug. 21, 2025
Int. Cl. B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 9/00 (2013.01) [B60R 16/023 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle safety device comprising:
a transceiver;
a first logic circuit electrically coupled to the transceiver;
a first electrical conductor electrically coupled to the transceiver and to a first mechanical connection of a first vehicle safety system of a vehicle, the first mechanical connection comprises an ISOFIX connection, the first safety system is an ISOFIX system, and the first mechanical connection to provide a first electrical path to a ground of the vehicle; and
a second electrical conductor electrically coupled to the transceiver and to a second mechanical connection of a second vehicle safety system of the vehicle, the second vehicle safety system separate from the first vehicle safety system, the second mechanical connection comprises a seatbelt connection, the second safety system is a seatbelt system, and the second mechanical connection to provide a data link to communicate data with a communication network of the vehicle;
one or more peripheral devices communicatively coupled to the first logic circuit, the one or more peripheral devices comprise one or more oxygen sensors to monitor an oxygen level of an occupant of the vehicle is outside of a normal range;
an oxygen disperser that is activated to increase the oxygen level in the vehicle when the oxygen level of the occupant of the vehicle is outside of the normal range.