Sentences with phrase «chest impact forces»

During a collision, the force limiter fractionally reduces seatbelt tension to lower occupant chest impact forces.

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NHTSA is issuing this NPRM to ensure that child restraints provide a minimum level of protection in side impacts by effectively restraining the child, preventing harmful head contact with an intruding vehicle door or child restraint structure, and by attenuating crash forces to the child's head and chest.

Measures recorded on the dummy's head, neck, and chest indicate low risk of serious injury in these areas of the body, but the poorly controlled movement of the dummy during the impact may have contributed to high forces on its right leg.

Here we see the mandated collapsible steering column, and the wheel has a flush hub to disperse an impact force across the driver's chest.

Second - row inflatable safety belts, which work like a traditional belt but include a tubular airbag that inflates in the event of a crash and distributes the force of the impact across a wider area of the passenger's chest.

Ford's unique inflatable rear belts spread impact forces across more than five times the area than conventional seat belts, reducing pressure on the chest while helping to control head and neck motion.

With the new test, officials would simulate a side - impact accident, showing how effective these seats are in protecting a child when a vehicle door intrudes and to see how effective they are at minimizing the forces upon the child's chest and head.

Here, the force of the impact of the rear car slamming into the car in front of it pushes the occupants of both vehicles forward in a way that can cut skin as well as bruise the chest, ribs, collarbones, and internal organs.