In Japan, the number of automobiles has exceeded thirty million and the number of driver's license holders reached thirty-five million (approximately thirty-five percent of the total population) at the end of 1976. Automobile traffic in many cities has been increasing rapidly year by year. Automobiles and trucks, at present in Japan, perform the most important part of a means for transporting p...

In the standards about the contour dimension of automobile in most countries, the height difference of body symmetrical points or body inclination angle of automobile was specified. To improve the vehicle performance and operation safety, a measurement method of car body inclination angle was studied. According to the camera calibration and the distance between camera and automobile, the front ...

A growing issue in the area of vehicular ride comfort is that of child safety seats. Postural, thermal and vibrational comfort considerations are finding their way into child seat design. This paper makes some observations regarding the current state of child safety seat design, then goes on to present the results of vibration tests performed over two road surfaces using two child seats and two...

Automobile automation is increasing. In the light of aircraft automation, this paper present a first account on a possible transfer from aeronautics to automobile (AtoA). The common aspect concerns the concept of information-intensive deeper interface between the driver and the mechanical parts of the vehicle in its environment. The automobile is integrating more information technology to impro...

A finite element automobile model for use in crash safety studies was developed through reverse engineering. The model was designed for calculating the response of the automobile structure during full frontal, offset frontal, or side impacts. The reverse engineering process involves the digitization of component surfaces as the vehicle is dismantled, the meshing and reassembly of these componen...