Rear seat adult occupant protection is receiving increased attention from the automotive safety community. Recent anthropomorphic test device (ATD) studies have suggested that it may be possible to improve kinematics and reduce injuries to rear seat occupants in frontal collisions by incorporating shoulder-belt force-limiting and pretensioning (FL+PT) technologies into rear seat 3-point belt restraints. This study seeks to further investigate the feasibility and potential kinematic benefits of a FL+PT rear seat, 3-point belt restraint system in a series of 48 kmh frontal impact sled tests (20 g, 80 ms sled acceleration pulse) performed with post mortem human surrogates (PMHS). Three PMHS were tested with a 3-point belt restraint with a progressive (two-stage) force limiting and pretensioing retractor in a sled buck representing the rear seat occupant environment of a 2004 mid-sized sedan. Instrumentation included belt tension load cells, accelerometers on the head and at multiple locations on the spine, and chestbands to measure the chest deformation contours in the transverse plane. The kinematics of the subjects were quantified using off-board, high-speed video. The results of these tests were then compared to matched PMHS tests, published in 2008, performed in the same environment with a standard (not-force limited, not pretensioning) 3-point belt restraint. The FL+PT restraint system resulted in significant (p<0.05) decreases in peak shoulder belt tension (average+/-standard deviation: 4.4+/-0.13 kN with the FL+PT belt, 7.8+/-0.6 kN with the standard belt) and 3 ms-resultant, mid-spine acceleration (FL+PT: 34+/-3.8 g; standard belt: 44+/-1.4 g). The FL+PT tests also produced more forward torso rotation caused by decreased forward excursion of the pelvis and increased payout out of the shoulder belt by the force-limiter. These results support the previous ATD studies that suggest that it may be possible to improve the kinematics of rear seat occupants in this type of collision using a 3-point belt system with a shoulder belt retractor equipped with a two-stage force-limiter and pretensioner.


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    Titel :

    Rear seat occupant safety: An investigation of a progressive force-limiting, pretensioning 3-point belt system using adult PMHS in frontal sled tests


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Insassensicherheit auf dem Rücksitz: Eine Untersuchung eines Dreipunktgurtsystems mit Gurtkraftbegrenzer und Gurtstraffer in Frontalaufprall-Schlittentests mit postmortem Erwachsenen-Probanden


    Beteiligte:
    Forman, Jason (Autor:in) / Lopez-Valdes, Francisco (Autor:in) / Lessley, David (Autor:in) / Kindig, Matthew (Autor:in) / Kent, Richard (Autor:in) / Ridella, Stephen (Autor:in) / Bostrom, Ola (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009


    Format / Umfang :

    26 Seiten, 16 Bilder, 9 Tabellen, 44 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch







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