Safety-Enhancing Motor Vehicle Child Safety Seat

项目概要/摘要 明尼苏达州健康解决方案公司（MHS）建议开发一种增强型儿童安全座椅， 改进碰撞保护和防止误用。儿童安全座椅安装在车辆上， 连接并张紧主座椅至车辆的锚固点。正确使用座椅到车辆 在最大限度地减少儿童在机动车中的伤害方面，附件是极其重要的 崩溃不幸的是，附件不方便地位于儿童安全座椅上，并且难以使用 正常几项大型研究发现，只有10%到40%的儿童被正确地利用到 正确安装座椅。儿童安全座椅的不当使用大大降低了其有效性， 重大公共卫生问题。建议的儿童安全座椅将通过以下方式提供更好的碰撞保护： 创新的，廉价的易于使用的功能，将提高碰撞性能，并有助于减轻影响 滥用座椅我们假设，建议的儿童安全座椅将减少车辆碰撞相关的儿童伤害 和死亡一个跨学科的研究小组已经成立，以定义，建立和评估一个 生产原型系统。

Project Summary/Abstract Minnesota HealthSolutions Corporation (MHS) proposes to develop an enhanced child safety seat that offers improved crash protection and mitigation against misuse. Child safety seats are installed in vehicles by properly attaching and tensioning the main seat-to-vehicle anchorage points. Proper use of the seat-to-vehicle attachments is extremely important in achieving the maximum available reduction of child injuries in motor vehicle crashes. Unfortunately, the attachments are inconveniently located on child safety seats and difficult to use properly. Several large studies have observed that only 10% to 40% of children are correctly harnessed into correctly installed seats. Improper use of child safety seats substantially reduces their effectiveness and is a major public health concern. The proposed child safety seat will offer enhanced crash protection through an innovative, inexpensive easy-to-use feature that will improve crash performance and also help mitigate the effects of seat misuse. We hypothesize that the proposed child safety seat will reduce vehicle crash-related child injuries and deaths. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has been assembled to define, build, and evaluate a production prototype system.