The report summarizes the effort to develop an advanced air bag restraint system for standard size cars capable of protecting the driver in frontal and/or frontal oblique crashes. The result of the work has been the development of a system consisting of (a) a small quickly inflating double air bag, (b) and energy absorbing steering column mechanically stroking through rollerless tapes, (c) a mechanically stroking padded knee restraint linked to the steering column, (d) an energy absorbing seat assembly, and (e) compartment padding. The system is capable of protecting drivers throughout the adult anthropometric range at velocities to 50 mph as tested in sled simulated frontal, pitching, and angular impacts representing actual collisions.
Advanced Air Bag Restraints for Standard Size Car Drivers. Volume II. Final Program Report
1974
367 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Human Factors Engineering , Consumer Affairs , Automobiles , Safety devices , Crash tests , Anthropometry , Inflatable structures , Energy absorption , Steering , Padding , Absorbers(Materials) , Safety engineering , Impact tests , Rocket propelled sleds , Collision research , Air-bag restraint systems , Air bags