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Injury Prevention during Collision with Trucks and Buses: Airbag Liability Program
Description: The ultimate goal of this project is to eliminate 90% of the deaths and injuries caused by trucks and buses that collide with cars and pedestrians. Trucks & buses average one collision per year in the U.S. Over 400,000 of these result in injuries and 4,000 in deaths. Ninety percent of the Liability insurance cost for trucks and buses is from the people killed or injured in collisions, roughly $12 billion per year. The Liwon bumper bag is designed to eliminate 90% of collision deaths & injuries. The Liwon bumper airbag should pay for itself many times over every time it is used. The bumper airbag can be inflated before trucks hit a smaller vehicle. The driver hits a switch to inflate the airbag or a collision radar system inflates it. In most accidents, the driver has hit the brakes anyways and an extra push could trigger the airbag. The bumper bag is an extra tool when brakes are not enough. The specific objective of this Phase one research and development effort is to design an optimum bumper airbag system. We will use a sophisticated, computerized, mathematical Finite Element Model of the complete bumper airbag system to accurately simulate:
1) collisions with cars and pedestrians
2) airbag inflation and inflator concepts
3) crosswinds and headwinds during and after airbag inflation.
We will vary key design input variables by about 20% to see their effect on performance variables. Input variables will include airbag length, front face slant angle, inflator pressure flow rate profile, and others. Performance variables will include inflation time, bumper-to-bumper contact speed, aerodynamic lift force and cost. We will use these simulations to make simple equations of the bumper airbag system behavior by using the key design and performance variables. We will use these simple equations in an optimization program to develop the best design for the bumper airbag system. In Phase II, we will use this design to build a working prototype.
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