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Protection for the smallest occupant - status quo and potentials concerning the development of child restraint systems

  • 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.

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Verfasserangaben:Sebastian Weber, Heiko Johannsen, Volker Schindler, Britta SchnottaleORCiD
Dokumentart:Konferenzveröffentlichung
Sprache:Englisch
Datum der Veröffentlichung (online):15.09.2014
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2007
Beteiligte Körperschaft:Technische Universität Berlin
Datum der Freischaltung:15.09.2014
Freies Schlagwort / Tag:Anfahrversuch; Benutzung; Bewertung; Biomechanik; Deutschland; Fehler; Kind; Passives Sicherheitssystem; Schutz; Schweregrad (Unfall, Verletzung); Seite; Sicherheit; Sicherheitsgurt; Stand der Technik (Bericht); Verbesserung
Biomechanics; Child; Error; Evaluation (assessment); Germany; Impact test (veh); Improvement; Passive safety system; Safety; Safety belt; Severity (accid, injury); Side; State of the art report; Use
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Volltext: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv20/07-0464-O.pdf
Quelle:Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles Conference (ESV) in Lyon, France, June 18-21, 2007
Institute:Abteilung Fahrzeugtechnik / Abteilung Fahrzeugtechnik
Sonstige / Sonstige
DDC-Klassifikation:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
collections:BASt-Beiträge / ITRD Sachgebiete / 91 Fahrzeugkonstruktion
BASt-Beiträge / Tagungen / International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV) / 20th ESV Conference 2007

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