Sled test apparatus and method for simulating pre-impact crash event

US6522998B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Breed Automotive Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Joseph F. Mazur · Big Rapids, US
• Brian K. Blackburn · Rochester, US
• H. John Miller, III · Macomb Township, US
• Scott B. Gentry · Romeo, US
• Michel Paul Rossey · Rochester, US
• Edward Burley · Romeo, US
• Timothy Hill · Pensacola, US
• Kurt Schulz · Lapeer, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 13, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2003
• Expiry date: Oct 13, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01M17/0078
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and device for simulating impact conditions which has a test sled 10, simulated occupant (14), and a pre-impact force-generating device. The pre-impact force-generating device can apply force directly to the simulated occupant being (14), thereby overcoming many of the cost problems associated with applying a low and long duration force directly to a test sled (10). The pre-impact force-generating device can be designed such that instead of providing a low and long duration force to a simulated occupant (14), it provides a short and high impact force to the simulated occupant (14). An impact force-generating device provides impact force directly to the sled (10) which simulates impact conditions.