Improved head restraint design for safety and compliance

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Parkinson, Matthew B ^a   Reed, Matthew P ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; SEATS; STANDARDS; TISSUE;

ANTHROPOMETRIC VARIABILITY; DESIGN GUIDELINES; SMALLER-STATURE OCCUPANTS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 33751321681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2006-99429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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