Interior compartment doors are required by Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 201, to stay closed during physical head impact testing, and when subjected to specific inertia loads. This paper defines interior compartment doors, and shows examples of several different latches designed to keep these doors closed. It also explores the details of the requirements that interior compartment doors and their latches must meet, including differing requirements from automobile manufacturers. It then shows the conventional static method a supplier uses to analyze a latch and door system. And, since static calculations can't always capture the complexities of a dynamic event, this paper also presents a case study of one particular latch and door system showing a way to simulate the forces experienced by a latch. The dynamic simulation is done using Finite Element Analysis and instrumentation of actual hardware in physical tests.


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    Title :

    A Discussion on Interior Compartment Doors and Latches


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE 2004 World Congress & Exhibition ; 2004



    Publication date :

    2004-03-08




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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