Traumatic dislocations of hip may occur as a result of a fall from a height on an abducted hip, a heavy weight falling on the back with the hip in an abducted position or as the result of automobile accidents. ' Dash board dislocation ' |s the term used by American writers for dislocations that occur as a result of automobile accidents either to the driver or the companion 111 the driver's seat.

1 1. What’s New in Automotive Safety? Automobile safety technology advanced by great strides throughout the 20th century, from the first appearance of speedometers and electric headlamps, to the development of seat belts and safety glass, to the emergence of anti-lock brakes and airbags. As consumers demand safety, more and more automobile manufacturers are providing sophisticated technology, f...

A 22-year-old man died following a side impact blow in an automobile accident. Necropsy showed a large tear in the posterior wall of the aorta approximately 12 mm distal to the insertion of ligamentum arteriosum (Figures 1 and 2). Subadventitial hemorrhage was prominent in the descending thoracic aorta. Th e left pleural space contained large quantities of blood. Traumatic aortic rupture is the...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect driver-side and passenger-side airbags have had on the incidence and severity of maxillofacial trauma in victims of automobile accidents. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of all automobile (passenger cars and light trucks) accidents reported in 1994. SETTING New York State. PATIENTS Of the 595910 individuals involved in motor vehicle accidents in New York in ...

Occupants of automobiles experience discomfort after long drives, irrespective of how well designed a seat might be. Previous studies of discomfort during driving have focused either on the seat shape andmaterials (“static” properties), long-term discomfort (“fatigue” properties), or dynamics (“vibration” properties).These factors have previously not been considered together.This paper reports ...

BACKGROUND Driving has been associated with signs and symptoms caused by vibrations. Sitting causes the pelvis to rotate backwards and the lumbar lordosis to reduce. Lumbar support and armrests reduce disc pressure and electromyographically recorded values. However, the ideal driver's seat and an optimal seated spinal model have not been described. OBJECTIVE To determine an optimal automobile...

To design and develop a comfortable driver’s seat, cheaper in cost and adds value to the customer is an important issue in an automotive industry. It is tough to design such a driver car seat. However, taking account all these things many researchers have put effort to design and developed a driver car seat considering various aspects (e.g. Biomechanical, materials, vibration absorption, safety...

In this research, LabVIEW 8.5 is taken as the software platform. Sensors, data acquisition cards are combined as its hardware. A detecting and analyzing system for the vibration comfort of car seats is developed, in which the functions as to the collecting and processing of vibrating signals, the access of data and the display of images are achieved. The system can also analyze the dynamic char...