Invisible Knee Airbag Module Development

Hong, Soongu; Jeong, Hunhee; Joo, Byungryong; Kim, Ikwhan

doi:10.4271/2007-01-0347

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“…Few researches on the KAB have been conducted at present. The earliest KAB which was designed by Raj S. Roychoudhury was based on blow-molded plastic active knee bolster and was fitted at Sportage of Kia company in 1996 [1]; Patrick Borde [2] introduced a kind of driver KAB which was called firework-type knee bolster by Faurecia; Zane Z. Yang [3] suggested an active KAB safety system by Delphi. These researches mostly focused on intermediate and high-level car market abroad, while there is little research on the protection for bus driver in China.…”

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An Optimization Design of Knee Airbag for Driver Protection from Inter-City Coach Frontal Impact

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In order to reduce the injury risk of driver’s lower extremities, a driver knee airbag was developed and optimized by using mathematical models. The influence of eight design parameters of belt and knee airbag on the injuries of driver’s lower extremities was analyzed. The result shows that the key influence factors are sensitive to the injuries of lower extremity, including initiation timing of knee airbag, the strap length of knee airbag and area coefficient for the exhaust openings of knee airbag. Based on multi-objective genetic algorithms, an optimization of the knee airbag was conducted in terms of the three factors. After optimization, the injury risk of driver’s lower extremities is greatly reduced.

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