The ISO/TC22/SC10/WG3 is currently discussing the standardization of test procedures for out-of-position occupants of vehicles furnished with airbags. The purpose of the present experiments was to contribute to this [SO activities by testing the major out-of- position items proposed in the draft ISO Technical Report, "Guidelines for Evaluating Out-of-Position Vehicle Occupant Interactions with Deploying Airbags,"1) which was formally recognized as a draft at the ISO/TC22/SC10/WG3 meeting in April 1990. Consequently, we discussed prospective test procedures that will enable us to properly evaluate the occupant's out-of-position behavior in relation to airbag deployment.
Among the 212 cases of out-of-position tests provided in the ISO Technical Report, this report will deal with the results of 30 cases that we experimented with from 1990 to 1992, using a Hybrid III (AM5O) dummy and an airbag three—year-old child dummy with driver and/or passenger airbags. The test results indicated the importance of the degree of dummy setting and the injury rating indicated by dummy responses; therefore, the dummy positions of the 30 cases were studied, leading to the selection of the eight most recommendable dummy positions.