Protection against impact with the ground using wearable airbags

Industrial Health

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-65

  Fukaya, Kiyoshi ^a   Uchida, Mitsuya ^b  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Prop Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fall; Protective devices; Slip; Trip; Wearable airbag; Wheelchair overturn

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ERGONOMICS; FALLING; HEAD INJURY; JOINT MOBILITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RANGE OF MOTION; WHEELCHAIR;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AIR BAGS; HUMANS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; WHEELCHAIRS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 39649097646     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.46.59     Document Type: Article

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