The research program was conducted to design, develop, fabricate and evaluate performance of a driver inflatable occupant restraint system for a full-size U.S. automobile within a combined analytical and experimental framework. The system included the energy-absorbing steering column, the special steering wheel, the inflator, the sensor and the air bag. Development of the system was to provide protection to the driver under a range of frontal force, barrier equivalent, impact conditions. With anthropomorphic dummies as test subjects, experimental crash simulations and crashes were carried out at various velocities with no restraint, with the lap belt only, with the lap and shoulder belt, and with the air bag system. The performance of the air bag system was evaluated by comparing its performance with other protective systems and with the baseline of no protective system according to the injury criteria established in FMVSS 208 and/or the criteria established in the report. Analytically, air bag design parameters were also studied through mathematical model simulations. (Author)


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    Titel :

    Air Bag Restraints for Automobile Drivers. Volume I. System Description and Performance


    Beteiligte:
    L. M. Patrick (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1972


    Format / Umfang :

    224 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch