Two Recent Works to Improve the Head-Steering Wheel Impact of the Belted Driver

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Petiot, Petiot, author.

Contributor:

Houitte, J. C.

Conference Name:

20th FISITA Congress (1984), Vienna, Austria (1984-01-01 : Vienna, Austria)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1984

Summary:

In the case of the belted driver, the head-steering wheel impactremains an important cause of grievous injury caused by head-oncollision.This paper describes two recent works carried out by R.N.U.R. toimprove the matter.The first of these works consisted in using belt locking devicesjust after the reel so as to avoid or diminish the spool outeffect. The aim was to reduce head-steering wheel impact speedthrough an increae of belt retention. However, one cannot concludefrom our studies, that this research direction wil bringsignificant improvements.The second of these works is concerned with steering wheeldesign. The results which were reached show that a simplecollapsible steering hub enable to obtain a significant improvementof the parameters, recorded on a dummy, during complete vehiclecollision tests.One should underline that the solution which was developed takesinto account manufacture feasibility constraints.To this end, the Iso Delta Company, a supplier of Regie Renaultclosely collaborated in this reasearch work

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Publisher Number:

845140

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