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PERFORMANCE-BASED CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND ALGORITHM FOR PASSENGERS

  • US 20100121536A1
  • Filed: 10/23/2009
  • Published: 05/13/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for classifying a vehicle passenger for optimizing vehicle safety systems and devices for the passenger, said method comprising:

  • determining a number of basic passenger sizes based on passenger population of each gender;

    determining a number of predetermined passenger seat positions for each basic passenger size;

    identifying a set of tunable design variables that are used to adjust the vehicle safety systems and devices;

    performing design optimization analysis for identifying basic optimal designs for the vehicle safety systems and devices for each of the basic passenger sizes and the predetermined seat positions;

    producing a predetermined number of randomly selected reference passengers and seating positions;

    performing analysis for the randomly selected reference passengers in the randomly selected seating positions using the basic optimal designs;

    identifying the design from the basic optimal designs that provides the best performance for each of the randomly selected reference passengers in the randomly selected seating position;

    classifying all passengers into one of the predetermined number of classifications where each classification represents a particular basic optimal design;

    examining the basic optimal designs and their crash performance results to consolidate or reduce the number of basic optimal designs and classifications to a smaller set, if possible; and

    setting the vehicle systems and devices for a particular vehicle passenger based on the passenger'"'"'s Body Mass Index and the seating position using the classifications and designs.

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