Safety-Enhancing Motor Vehicle Child Safety Seat

项目摘要/摘要 明尼苏达健康解决方案公司(MHS)提议开发一种增强的儿童安全座椅，该座椅可提供 改进了碰撞保护和防止误用的缓解。儿童安全座椅安装在车辆上的方法是适当的 安装和拉紧主要座椅到车辆的锚固点。正确使用座椅对车辆 在最大限度地减少儿童头部运动损伤方面，附件是极其重要的 车辆相撞。不幸的是，附件放置在儿童安全座椅上很不方便，很难使用 适当和几项大型研究已经观察到，只有10%到20%的儿童被正确地利用起来 正确安装了座椅。不适当地使用儿童安全座椅大大降低了它们的有效性，是一种 主要的公共卫生问题。拟议的儿童安全座椅将通过一个 易于使用的功能，将提高碰撞性能，并有助于减轻误用的影响。我们 假设拟议的儿童安全座椅将减少与车辆碰撞有关的儿童伤亡。一个 已经组建了跨学科的研究团队来定义、构建和评估原型系统。

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 head injuries in motor vehicle crashes. Unfortunately, the attachments are inconveniently located on child safety seats and difficult to use properly and several large studies have observed that only 10% to 20% 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 easy-to-use feature that will improve crash performance and also help mitigate the effects of 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 prototype system.