Intuitive Child Safety Seat to Increase Security

项目概要/摘要 明尼苏达州健康解决方案公司（MHS）提出开发一种儿童安全座椅， 安全带张紧系统，以提高儿童安全座椅的正确安全带的比率。儿童 通过一个5点式安全带与肩带扣在裤裆里的儿童安全座椅。整个 安全带组件必须适当张紧以确保安全。松散的安全带是一种常见的误用， 安全座椅几项大型研究发现，只有10%到20%的儿童被正确地利用到 正确安装座椅。儿童约束装置的不当使用大大降低了其有效性， 公共卫生问题。建议的儿童安全座椅将利用全机械，直观的系统，以改善 正确使用儿童安全座椅。我们假设，一个儿童安全座椅，提供了一个直观的， 易于使用的安全带系统将显著提高儿童安全座椅的正确使用率， 与车祸有关的儿童伤亡。一个跨学科的研究小组已经成立， 构建并评估原型系统。

Project Summary/Abstract Minnesota HealthSolutions Corporation (MHS) proposes to develop a child safety seat with a novel intuitive harness tensioning system to improve the rate of proper harnessing of children into child safety seats. Children are harnessed into child safety seats via a 5-point harness with shoulder straps that buckle at the crotch. The entire harness assembly must be properly tensioned to ensure safety. Loose harnesses are a common misuse in child safety seats. Several large studies have observed that only 10% to 20% of children are correctly harnessed into correctly installed seats. Improper use of child restraints substantially reduces their effectiveness and is a major public health concern. The proposed child safety seat will utilize an all mechanical, intuitive system to improve proper use of the child safety seat harness. We hypothesize that a child safety seat that provides an intuitive and easy-to-use harness system will significantly improve the rate of proper child safety seat usage and reduce vehicle crash-related child injuries and deaths. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has been assembled to define, build, and evaluate a prototype system.