Investigation of new side impact test procedures in Japan

Yonezawa, Hideki; Hosokawa, Naruyuki; Minda, Hiroko; Notsu, Masao

Affiliations

¹National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory

²Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

Abstract

Various countries are independently conducting side impact tests with actual vehicles, resulting in extensive revisions of safety measures for accidents involving side collisions. However, the number of people injured and killed in these collisions remains high, and so more effective overall measures, including those for the vehicle itself, are urgently needed. The IHRA is actively conducting research toward enacting laws to standardize future methods of side impact tests as one way to realize international harmonization projects. This has led to MDB improvements as well as the improvement and development of dummies.

This report is intended to be useful for IHRA research activities. Tests were conducted using the improved dummies (ES-2, ES-2re) and AE- MDB in order to provide research results for comparison with body and dummy responses obtained in conditions complying with current regulations in Japan and Europe, and proposed regulations in the US.

Links

URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv19/05-0188-O.pdf

Cited Works (3)

Year	Entry
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Cited By (3)

Year	Entry
2007	Matsui Y, Hosokawa N, Takagi S, Yonezawa H, Mizuno K, Kubota H. Investigation for new side impact test procedures in Japan: effect of various moving deformable barriers and male/female dummies on injury criteria in side impact test. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 18-21, 2007; Lyon, France.
2009	Yonezawa H, Hosokawa N, Tanaka Y, Matsui Y, Takagi S, Hirasawa T, Kanoshima H, Mizuno K. Investigation for new side impact test procedures in Japan. In: Proceedings of the 21st International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 15-18, 2009; Stuttgart, Germany.
2011	Yonezawa H, Hosokawa N, Tanaka Y, Matsui Y, Korenori T, Hirakawa K, Mizuno K. Update on investigation of new side impact test procedures in Japan. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 13-16, 2011; Washington, DC.