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Seat belt designs to protect pregnant vehicle occupants

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posted on 2017-06-30, 10:40 authored by Serpil Acar, Volkan Esat
Various restraint systems to protect vehicle occupants in case of an accident have been specifically designed for pregnant women and the ideas are filed for patents. The concepts cover a wide range of designs; from ‘add-on’ to standard 3-point seat belt solutions to relatively complex mechatronics applications. Auxiliary tools and equipments to offer lap belt solutions constitute the majority of the reviewed patents. Designs also vary according to their working principles. Some designs exclusively focus on the lap belt part of the seat belt, whereas some others attempt to resolve the problem from a broader perspective, offering overall seat belt solutions with or without the use of standard seat belt. In this article around forty patented ideas on seat belt designs for pregnant women are reviewed, classified and presented, highlighting the working principles and inventors’ claims.

Funding

This work was supported by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Research Council, UK) under the Follow-on-Fund scheme.

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  • Design

Published in

Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering

Volume

3

Issue

1

Pages

1 - 10

Citation

ACAR, B.S. and ESAT, V., 2009. Seat belt designs to protect pregnant vehicle occupants. Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, 3(1), pp. 1-10.

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© Bentham Science Publishers

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2009

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2212797611003010001

ISSN

1874-477X

Language

  • en

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