TY  - CONF
A1  - Weber, Sebastian
A1  - Johannsen, Heiko
A1  - Schindler, Volker
A1  - Schnottale, Britta
T1  - Protection for the smallest occupant - status quo and potentials concerning the development of child restraint systems
N2  - The use of proper child restraint systems (CRS) is mandatory for children travelling in cars in most countries of the world. The analysis of the quantity of restrained children shows that more than 90% of the children in Germany are restrained. Looking at the quality of the protection, a large discrepancy between restrained and well protected children can be seen. Two out of three children in Germany are not properly restrained. In addition, considerable difference exists with respect to the technical performance of CRS. For that reason investigations and optimisations on two different topics are necessary: The technical improvement of CRS and the ease of use of CRS. Consideration of the knowledge gained by the comparison of different CRS in crash tests would lead to some improvements of the CRS. But improvement of child safety is not only a technical issue. People should use CRS in the correct way. Misuse and incorrect handling could lead to less safety than correct usage of a poor CRS. For that reason new technical issues are necessary to improve the child safety AND the ease of use. Only the combination of both parts can significantly increase child safety. For the assessment of the safety level of common CRS, frontal and lateral sled tests simulating different severity levels were conducted comparing pairs of CRS which were felt to be good and CRS which were felt to be poor. The safety of some CRS is currently at a high level. All well known products were not damaged in the performed tests. The performance of non-branded CRS was mostly worse than that of the well known products. Although the branded child restraint systems already show a high safety level it is still possible to further improve their technical performance as demonstrated with a baby shell and a harness type CRS.
KW  - Anfahrversuch
KW  - Benutzung
KW  - Bewertung
KW  - Biomechanik
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Fehler
KW  - Kind
KW  - Passives Sicherheitssystem
KW  - Schutz
KW  - Schweregrad (Unfall, Verletzung)
KW  - Seite
KW  - Sicherheit
KW  - Sicherheitsgurt
KW  - Stand der Technik (Bericht)
KW  - Verbesserung
KW  - Biomechanics
KW  - Child
KW  - Error
KW  - Evaluation (assessment)
KW  - Germany
KW  - Impact test (veh)
KW  - Improvement
KW  - Passive safety system
KW  - Safety
KW  - Safety belt
KW  - Severity (accid, injury)
KW  - Side
KW  - State of the art report
KW  - Use
Y1  - 2007
UR  - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/759
N1  - Volltext: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv20/07-0464-O.pdf
ER  -