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Analyses of Deployment Process and Sled Test for Designing Airbag Module (에어백 단품설계를 위한 전개과정과 승객거동해석)

  • 김헌영;이상근;신윤재
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.118-128
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    • 1998
  • Finite element analyses are carried out to provide results usable in the design of airbag module that consists of inflater, cushion, cover, mounting plate, etc. In the first phase, a deployment process of airbag module is analyzed to evaluate the pressure waveform of developed airbag and deployment characteristics, and is compared with the test results. Interaction between head form and inflated airbag module is investigated in the second phase. In the last stage, sled test with rigid dummy, airbag midule, driving system and car interior part are simulated to investigate the influence of airbag design factor on the behavior of dummy with seat belt. The procedures can be provided as a guideline for airbag module design and improvement of airbag module performance.

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Finite Element Modeling of Folded Airbag and Analysis of Deployment Process (운전석 및 조수석 에어백 단품의 유한요소 모델링과 전개 과정 해석)

  • 김헌영;이상근;신윤재
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.4 no.6
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    • pp.236-246
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    • 1996
  • The deployment process of fully folded airbag is analyzed. The methodology of finite element modeling is presented for flat driver side airbag and 3-dimensional passenger side airbag. 'Initial metric option' is used to model 3-dimensional passenger side airbag before deployment. The deformed shapeds and pressure waveforms inside cushion evaluated from simulation are compared to the test results. The agreements between the simulation and the experiments are satisfactory, and the results of simulation are confirmed to be applied to the design of airbag module.

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Lifetime Prediction of Automotive Airbag Fabrics (자동차 에어백용 원단의 수명예측)

  • Koo, Hyun-Jin;Cho, Hang-Won;Chang, Gap-Shik
    • Journal of Applied Reliability
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.319-329
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    • 2009
  • The airbag module is an inflatable restraint system that inflates within 0.05 seconds automatically in a collision to protect the occupants. The airbag fabrics used in the module are required to have the good resilience and strength and also to have retained at least 80% of mechanical properties after using longer than 10 years. In this study, we develop an accelerated test method in order to predict the lifetimes of airbag. In this test, we select temperature and humidity as environmental stresses by analyzing the failure mechanisms of coated and uncoated nylon 66 fabrics. It is found that the degradation of airbag fabrics is effectively accelerated under the combined conditions of high temperature and humidity. Analyzing the results of the accelerated test, the lifetimes of airbag fabrics are predicted to be longer than 10 years.

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Role of Side Impact Airbag in Order to Reduce Passenger Injury Value (승객 상해치 감소를 위한 측면 에어백의 역할)

  • 김동석;이명식
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.142-151
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    • 1997
  • In order to reduce passenger injuries in side collisions, car makers are developing a side impact airbag system while Volvo has already adopted. This study examines dummy injury reduction effect of a side airbag system using full car side impact simulation according to FMVSS 214 test procedure. The simulation result without side airbag shows a good correlation with test data. The folded airbag simulation is carried out to check main design factors. Through the simulation with side airbag module integrated in the seat frame, it is found that the side airbag system provides a substantially enhanced protection for car occupants in side collisions.

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Design and estimation of a sensing attitude algorithm for AUV self-rescue system

  • Yang, Yi-Ting;Shen, Sheng-Chih
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.157-177
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    • 2017
  • This research is based on the concept of safety airbag to design a self-rescue system for the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) using micro inertial sensing module. To reduce the possibility of losing the underwater vehicle and the difficulty of searching and rescuing, when the AUV self-rescue system (ASRS) detects that the AUV is crashing or encountering a serious collision, it can pump carbon dioxide into the airbag immediately to make the vehicle surface. ASRS consists of 10-DOF sensing module, sensing attitude algorithm and air-pumping mechanism. The attitude sensing modules are a nine-axis micro-inertial sensor and a barometer. The sensing attitude algorithm is designed to estimate failure attitude of AUV properly using sensor calibration and extended Kalman filter (SCEKF), feature extraction and backpropagation network (BPN) classify. SCEKF is proposed to be used subsequently to calibrate and fuse the data from the micro-inertial sensors. Feature extraction and BPN training algorithms for classification are used to determine the activity malfunction of AUV. When the accident of AUV occurred, the ASRS will immediately be initiated; the airbag is soon filled, and the AUV will surface due to the buoyancy. In the future, ASRS will be developed successfully to solve the problems such as the high losing rate and the high difficulty of the rescuing mission of AUV.

Numerical Simulation of OOP(Out-of-Position) Problem with$5_{th}$ Percentile Female F.E Model ($5_{th}$ Percentile 성인 여성 유한요소 모델을 이용한 OOP(Out-of-Position) 문제에 대한 수치해석)

  • 나상진;최형연;이진희
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.177-183
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    • 2004
  • The out-of-positioned small female drivers are most likely to be injured during airbag deployment due to their stature and proximity to the steering wheel and airbag module. In order to investigate the injury mechanisms, some experimental studies with Hybrid III 5% female dummy and with female cadavers could be found from the open literatures. However, the given information from those experimental studies is quite limited to the standard conditions and might not be enough to estimate the airbag inflation aggressiveness regarding on the occupant responses and injury. In this study, a finite element analysis has been performed in order to investigate the airbag-induced injuries. A finite element 5% female human model in anatomical details has been developed. The validation results of the model are also introduced in this paper.

Analyses on Airbag Sensor Signals by Different Packaging (자동차용 에어백 센서의 패키징 방법에 따른 신호 전달 해석)

  • Kim, Yeong K.;Kang, Hyun Jin;Kim, Joon Ki
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.105-109
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    • 2015
  • In this study, a new airbag sensor packaging technique of directly attachment by adhesive to the automobile frame is introduced. To assess the feasibility for the packaging, a test instrument was manufactured to examine the impact sensibility by drop tests. The conventional sensor module attached mechanically by bolts with plastic housing and the new sensor packaging were installed to aluminum channel, and the results were compared with each other. Numerical analysis was also performed to investigate the signal characteristics created by the sensors. The preliminary results showed that the pattern of the MEMS sensor signal was strongly dependent on the structural behavior of the frame where the sensors were installed, which indicated the complexity of the packaging design for proper airbag deployments.

EVALUATION OF DYNAMIC TENSILE CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYPROPYLENE WITH TEMPERATURE VARIATION

  • Kim, J.S.;Huh, H.;Lee, K.W.;Ha, D.Y.;Yeo, T.J.;Park, S.J.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.571-577
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    • 2006
  • This paper deals with dynamic tensile characteristics for the polypropylene used in an IP(Instrument Panel). The polypropylene is adopted in the dash board of a car, especially PAB(Passenger Air Bag) module. Its dynamic tensile characteristics are important because the PAB module undergoes high speed deformation during the airbag expansion. Since the operating temperature of a car varies from $-40^{\circ}C$ to $90^{\circ}C$ according to the specification, the dynamic tensile tests are performed at a low temperature($-30^{\circ}C$), the room temperature($21^{\circ}C$) and a high temperature($85^{\circ}C$). The tensile tests are carried out at strain rates of six intervals ranged from 0.001/sec to 100/sec in order to obtain the strain rate sensitivity. The flow stress decreases at the high temperature while the strain rate sensitivity increases. Tensile tests of polymers are rather tricky since polymer does not elongate uniformly right after the onset of yielding unlike the conventional steel. A new method is suggested to obtain the stress-strain curve accurately. A true stress-strain curve was estimated from modification of the nominal stress-strain curves obtained from the experiment. The modification was carried out with the help of an optimization scheme accompanied with finite element analysis of the tensile test with a special specimen. The optimization method provided excellent true stress-strain curves by enforcing the load response coincident with the experimental result. The material properties obtained from this paper will be useful to simulate the airbag expansion at the normal and harsh operating conditions.

Trends of airbag technology (에어백 기술의 발전동향)

  • 김권희
    • Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 1996
  • 에어백 관련기술은 차체 충돌특성 평가, 승객거동분석, 좌석벨트/조향축/에어백의 조화설계 등을 포함하는 시스템 엔지니어링 기술과 충돌감지센서, 가스발생기, 모듈 등을 포함하는 주요 기능 부품의 설계 및 제조기술로 구분된다. 이 중 시스템 엔지니어링 기술은 국내의 완성차 업계의 노력에 의하여 선진국의 수준에 근접하고 있으나 부품의 설계 및 제조기술은 매우 취약한 상황이다. 80년대 후반부터 각국의 에어백 관련 특허 출원 건수가 급증하고 있으며 새로운 기능의 부품들이 속속 개발되고 있다. 에어백 기술의 발전방향은 소형화, 경량화, 저렴화로 요약된다. 차량의 전방 충돌에 대비한 에어백이 주종을 이루고 있으나 측면 충돌에 대비한 side bag, 뒷자석 승객을 보호하기 위한 rear bag 등이 개발되고 있고 최근에는 버스 등 대형차량이나 모터사이클 등에도 에어백을 부착하기 위한 연구가 추진되고 있다. 에어백은 충돌센서(crash sensor), 가스발생장치(inflator), 공기주머니(bag), 덮개(cover), 배선(wire harness) 등으로 구성된다. 이들 중에서 공기주머니, 덮개, 가스발생장치를 결합한 부분 조립품을 모듈(module)이라고 부르고 있다. 이하에서는 에어백을 구성하는 주요 기능부품들의 종류, 특성과 기술개발 동향을 알아보기로 한다.

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN GMLAN SPEED AND GPS REPORTED VEHICLE SPEED BY VEHICLE MANEUVER (차량 운동에 따른 GMLAN 차량 속도와 실제 차량 속도 비교)

  • Won, Eugene;Kim, Jinwon;Kang, Sunggi
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.16-24
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    • 2013
  • Some GM (General Motors) vehicles are using a GMLAN (General Motors Local Area Network) communication protocol for control and diagnostics. The airbag control module uses vehicle speed information from the GMLAN to record the vehicle speed as pre-crash information. In order to use the vehicle speed information for crash reconstruction purposes, it helps to be able to understand the accuracy of the data. The actual vehicle speed is not expected to be the same as the GMLAN indicated speed in some situations like a spin or if there is hard braking. This paper compares the actual vehicle speed and vehicle speed information during specific vehicle maneuvers. Actual vehicle speed is calculated from a GPS sensor, while GMLAN vehicle speed is calculated from transmission output sensor by the Engine control module (ECM). Vehicle maneuvers defined as Mode #1, Mode #2, Mode #3. The Mode #1 maneuver simulates wheel lock-up and skidding f by hard-braking at a specific speed. The Mode #2 maneuver simulates a 90degree turn using a J-turn maneuver at a specific speed. The Mode#3 maneuver simulates a 180 degree turn using a spin type of maneuver at a specific speed. The study then compares the GMLAN speed and GPS speed to see what speed difference exists between them. The results of this paper are applicable to GM vehicles only. This paper catalogs the performance and limitations of two vehicles as useful reference for crash reconstructions where there is a need to understand the speed indicated in the pre-crash section of the SDM data.