• The tire
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• s.119
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• pp.26-32
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• 1985

타이어의 안전기준에 관한 문제는 역시 자동차의 선진국이면서 또 소비자운동에서도 선구자인 미국에서 제일 먼저 큰 사회문제로 대두되었다. 그래서 미국에서는 곧 미국연방자동차안전기준(FMVSS :Federal Motor Vechicle Safety Standard)을 제정하여 시행함으로써 일단락되었으며, 그 후 일본, 유럽, 호주 등 자동차선진국들도 대체적으로 미국기준을 모방한 자동차안전기준을 제정하여 오늘에 이르게 되었다. 그러나 그 내용에 있어서는 앞으로도 계속 논의대상이 있을 것으로 보이며 또 다소의 변화도 생길 것으로 보인다. 따라서 여기서는, 지금에 이르기까지의 미국의 현황에 대해서 약간 살펴본 다음 각국의 안전기준의 현황을 간단히 설명해보고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.61-67
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• 2016

The airbag is a widely accepted device for occupant protection in the automotive industry. As the injuries induced by airbag deployment have become a critical issue, revisions to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 208 were required to create advanced airbags that can protect occupants of varying statures. In this paper, we developed a new low-risk deployment passenger airbag by adding the Passenger Protection Wrap (PPW). The PPW reduces the cushion impact force to the occupant in order to ensure pressure dispersion. A series of tests were conducted by using FMVSS 208 test procedures to demonstrate the proposed system. It was found that the system not only satisfied the injury criteria of FMVSS 208 but was also effective for protecting passengers of all sizes (male, small female, 3-year-old, 6-year-old).

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.24-34
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• 2005

The automobile seat must satisfy various safety regulations for the passenger's safety. In many design practices, each component is independently designed by concentrating on a single related regulation. However, since multiple regulations can be involved in a seat component, there may be design confliction among the various safety regulations. Therefore, a new design methodology is required to effectively design an automobile seat. The axiomatic approach is employed for considering multiple regulations. The Independence Axiom is used to define the overall flow of the seat design. Functional requirements (FRs) are defined by safety regulations and components of the seat are classified into groups which yield design Parameters (DPs). The classification is carried out to have independence in the FR-DP relationship. Components in a DP group are determined by using orthogonal away of the design of experiments (DOE). Numerical analyses are utilized to evaluate the safety levels by using a commercial software system for nonlinear transient finite element analysis.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.79-85
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• 2003

The child restraint system is blown to be excellent to reduce child occupant injury in frontal collisions. The effects of the child restraint system are experimently investigated according to FMVSS 213. A sled simulator is utilized with varying restraint types such as 2point, 3point seat belts, forward-facing types and booster types of child restraint systems. The head and chest injuries for various cases are evaluated based on industrial standards. Also, the maximum displacements of the head and the knees are measured by film analysis. Using the results of the test, the effects of the child restraint system is discussed and reduction of child occupant injury is pursued.