The airbag system has become a standard equipment of vehicles recently. The purpose of airbag system is to protect the safeties of driver and passengers. How to improve the ignition timing of algorithm of airbag control at the moment of car accident occurrence is very important. In this paper, the test platform of simulation is established such as to assure the corrections of ignition timings f...

Although airbags reduce the overall risk of injury and death from motor vehicle accidents, the airbag may cause injuries during deployment. We present a case of apparently isolated sternal fracture caused by airbag deployment during a motor vehicle crash and we discuss the ultrasonographic diagnosis. We also examine the mechanism of injury caused by the airbag.

In this paper, an integrated wearable airbag is proposed to protect the vulnerable pedestrian during a vehicle–pedestrian collision accident. To evaluate protection performance of newly airbag, inflator finite element model first verified via tank test, and simulated results agree very well with test. Next, established, including simplified vehicle biomechanical HBM airbag. The numerical show c...

OBJECTIVE Details on airbag injuries to the upper extremity are relatively unknown to clinicians. The injuries presented here should provide a clear understanding of the mechanisms of forearm, hand, and wrist injuries that may be seen by emergency room physicians. MATERIALS AND METHODS From our crash investigations of 325 airbag-equipped passenger cars, a subset of upper extremity injuries ar...

The risk of moderate or serious abdominal injury is higher for belted drivers in frontal crashes with a deployed airbag than for belted drivers not exposed to a deployed airbag. An analysis of roughly 13,000 belted front seat occupants in frontal crashes from National Automotive Sampling System / Crashworthiness Data System (NASS/CDS) case years 1993-2007 with and without airbag deployment were...

Honda presented feasibility research on one concept of motorcycle mounted airbag at the 16 ESV conference in 1998. The results of nine impact test pairs showed reduced injuries in four cases, no changes in three, and increased injuries in two. In the tests, most of the changes in injury occurred at dummy/ground contact. A modified prototype airbag system was designed which mainly involved an en...

Longitudinal barriers, such as guardrails, are designed to prevent a vehicle that leaves the roadway from impacting a more dangerous object while minimizing risk of injury to the vehicle occupants. Current full-scale test procedures for these devices do not consider the effect of occupant restraints such as seat belts and airbags. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which r...

Airbags have received widespread recognition as an effective means of enhancing automobile safety. They are particularly effective in frontal and front angle collisions which otherwise would be fatal or cause serious injuries. Inflation of the bag helps protect the driver and front-seat-passenger from hitting the steering wheel, dashboard or windshield. In frontal crashes airbags have reduced d...

As in-vehicle safety technology becomes more prevalent, the corresponding fitment of side airbags in the United Kingdom is now more commonplace. This study adds to the body of knowledge on real world impacts by presenting initial cases of deployment from the UK, including examples where there is some suggestion that side airbag deployment may have contributed to injury outcomes. With the introd...