STTR Phase I: Child Safety Seat with Time-of-Crash Sensor for Passive Safety Systems

STTR 第一阶段：用于被动安全系统的带有碰撞时间传感器的儿童安全座椅

• 批准号: 1448925
• 负责人: Sara Seifert
• 金额: $ 22.49万
• 依托单位: Minnesota HealthSolutions Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1448925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Child; Safety; Seat

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to create a novel child safety seat technology that reduces the number of child deaths and injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes. Impacts beyond saving lives and preventing injuries include reducing healthcare costs and advancing the field of vehicle occupant kinematics research. The direct societal benefit of the proposed advanced child safety seat technology is that, if successful, it will improve the effectiveness of child safety seats and reduce the likelihood of head injuries.The proposed project will develop an innovative sensing mechanism mounted in a child safety seat that determines when to deploy time-of-crash protections within the child seat itself. Children riding in child safety seats are presently not protected by advanced time-of-crash technologies such as frontal airbags and belt pre-tensioners. The implementation of this mechanism will be extremely challenging given the cost and reliability constraints imposed by the market. The societal and commercial rewards for success are substantial because the technology would represent a key performance and market discriminator. It is expected that the fatality risk for children protected by time-of-crash technologies triggered by the proposed system will be lowered by about 12%.

该小企业技术转让 (STTR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是创造一种新颖的儿童安全座椅技术，减少机动车辆碰撞造成的儿童死亡和受伤人数。 除了拯救生命和预防伤害之外，其影响还包括降低医疗成本和推进车辆乘员运动学研究领域。 拟议的先进儿童安全座椅技术的直接社会效益是，如果成功，它将提高儿童安全座椅的有效性并减少头部受伤的可能性。拟议的项目将开发一种安装在儿童安全座椅中的创新传感机制，确定何时在儿童座椅本身内部署碰撞时保护装置。 目前，乘坐儿童安全座椅的儿童不受正面安全气囊和安全带预紧器等先进碰撞技术的保护。 考虑到市场施加的成本和可靠性限制，该机制的实施将极具挑战性。 成功的社会和商业回报是巨大的，因为该技术代表了关键的性能和市场区分因素。 预计受拟议系统触发的碰撞时间技术保护的儿童的死亡风险将降低约12%。