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

这个小型企业技术转让(STTR)第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是创造一种新的儿童安全座椅技术，减少因机动车碰撞而导致的儿童伤亡人数。除了挽救生命和防止伤害之外，还包括降低医疗成本和促进车辆乘员运动学研究领域的发展。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上的创新传感机制，确定何时在儿童座椅内部部署碰撞时间保护。目前，坐在儿童安全座椅上的儿童没有受到先进的撞车时间技术的保护，例如正面安全气囊和安全带预紧器。考虑到市场对成本和可靠性的限制，这一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，因为这项技术将代表着关键的性能和市场歧视因素。预计由拟议系统触发的坠机时间技术保护的儿童的死亡风险将降低约12%。

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%.