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Abstract

A seat occupancy determination device includes first and second load sensors, a seatbelt attachment detection device, a vehicle motion determination portion, and a seat occupancy determination logic portion configured to determine a state of a vehicle seat whether the vehicle seat is in a child-safety-seat fixed state, in an adult-passenger seated state, and in a no passenger state; the seat occupancy determination logic portion including a stopped-state seat occupancy determination logic portion and a motion-state seat occupancy determination logic portion each being set with an availability of transition from a first state to a second state of the three states and the transition conditions from the first state to a second state of the three states individually in order to transition a determination of the state of the vehicle seat precisely when the vehicle is in the stopped state and when the vehicle is in motion, respectively.

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