Shoulder kit assembly for crash test dummy

US9721484B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Humanetics Innovative Solutions, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kees Waagmeester · Berkel en Rodenrijs, NL
• Mark John Burleigh · Hemel Hempstead, GB
• Apoorva Lakshminarayana · Neckargemünd, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 16, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 1, 2017
• Expiry date: Nov 27, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B23/28
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A shoulder kit assembly for a crash test dummy includes a spine interface member for attachment to a spine of the crash test dummy and a scapula for attachment to the spine interface member. The shoulder kit assembly includes a load cell for attachment to the spine interface member for measuring load in a plurality of axes on a shoulder joint and an upper arm assembly having an arm bone made of a plastic material for operative attachment to the scapula. In addition, the shoulder kit assembly also includes a two axis rotational shoulder joint, a relatively soft molded flesh around the plastic arm bone, and provisions for two accelerometers at the shoulder and at the neck T1 location.