Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOES20230728005
- Term of Validity
- 28 July 2023 - 27 July 2025
- Company's Country
- Spain
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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A Spanish technological centre works in R&D&I activities in Mobility and Connectivity, Energy, Circular Economy and Sustainability and TIC.
The centre offers design methodology based on a combination of virtual tools and experimental testing using human body models (HBM) and anthropomorphic impact devices (ATD) to ensure rear seat safety at level of vulnerable users, including the children.
The partnerships sought are entities that require this technology. - Full Description
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The Spanish centre works to increase the competitiveness and industrial development of companies from the Transport and Energy sectors, strengthening their technological capabilities through R&D.
This technological centre has experience in the integral development of vehicle and automotive components from the point of view of experimental testing, numerical modelling, and correlation.
There is a great need to focus on rear-of-vehicle safety in order to take the correct actions to reduce the number and severity of injuries, critical when considering intersection collisions (lateral impact), because it presents a greater complexity than the frontal impact, for the protection of the occupant and especially for child protection. Until now, injury mitigation was aimed at improving vehicle front restraint systems.
To ensure side impact safety under different load cases (impact angles, speeds, etc.) generated by the new accident cases (future mixed traffic), it is important to assess how the occupants move (kinematics) and what forces they develop that could cause injuries during side crashes, and how advanced restraint systems can better protect these occupants. The combined HBM and ATD methodology allows for a more accurate understanding of occupant interactions, the damage generated and the causes of the damage.
This is important in the rear seat, where lateral movement is not restricted by components inside the
vehicle, such as center consoles. Also, occupant-to-occupant interaction, particularly with pediatric occupants, is common and largely unexplored, which will allow design guidelines for interior components and future vehicle restraint systems to be defined, as well as the definition of restraint systems specially adapted to the size and weight of children (Child Restraint Systems CRS).
The partnerships sought are whit entities that require this technology. This may also include opportunities to collaborate within European Research funded projects. - Advantages and Innovations
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The fundamental test and measurement tools are anthropomorphic dummies (ATD), but their biofidelity had questioned in child models, due to their ability to provide detailed responses to certain injuries for the simplifications and limitations from the physically fabricate them. Moreover, virtual models of the Human Body (HBMs) have developed to simulate occupant responses during a crash.
These models are fully deformable in the most relevant anatomical regions for injury prediction, but their response is difficult to test experimentally. Understanding the limitations of both tools in completely different impact situations from those currently proposed (automated vehicles) is a priority to apply improvements that guarantee more reliable results.
The centre works with dummies (physical and virtual) for side impact as well as HBMs models with the aim of identifying the limitations of both as occupant protection assessment tools. For instance, this could be used in the design of future level 3+ and 4 automated vehicles, propose lines of improvement or adaptations that make it possible to more accurately predict the behaviour of the security elements based on the new impact scenarios.
This design tool analyses the contribution to the user's safety contribution of all the actors involved in an impact, as the bodywork, the interior finishes, the seat and the restraint systems, both generic (seatbelt, airbags) as specific, for the child (restraint systems (CRS)) as well as the different impact conditions to which it is subjected (point of impact, direction of the impact force, speeds) which will provide greater added value to the interior components of the vehicle and to the CRS.
To date, all safety advances in automated vehicles focus on adult occupant protection, and vulnerable passengers are not working on. This technology is innovative and defines a methodology for the development of autonomous driving safety systems in the vehicles of the future at intersections. - Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- IPR status
- Secret know-how
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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Type of partner: Academic, research organisation, SMEs, big companies, other (public administrations)
Role of the partner: The main interest of the company is to stablish agreements regarding the mentioned technology and in some other fields to be able to further develop the involved technologies in each of the cases. This may also include opportunities to collaborate within European Research funded projects. - Type and Size of Partner
- Other
- Big company
- R&D Institution
- University
- SME 11-49
- SME <=10
- SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 02009001 - Design of Vehicles
- 02009023 - Interior equipment
- 02009004 - Road Vehicles
- 02009022 - Security systems
- 02009009 - Sensors for cars and transport
- Market keywords
- 09001005 - Motor vehicles, transportation equipment and parts
- Targeted countries
- All countries