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Motor vehicle passenger airbags have been proven to be effective for reducing the possibility of passenger injury during a crash. However, the inflation of the airbag sometimes causes serious injury when a passenger is positioned close to the airbag. The United States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 208 requires the use of a low-riskdeployment (LRD) passenger airbag system. This paper proposes a newly developed airbag system comprising two slim airbags mounted on the instrument panel. A series of tests were conducted using the FMVSS 208 test procedures to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. It was found that the system not only satisfied the injury criteria of FMVSS 208, but was also effective for protecting passengers of all sizes.
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Kim, D.E., Joo, Y.H. & Kang, M.C. Performance evaluation of slim low-risk-deployment dual-type passenger airbag system with dispersed inflation pressure. Int.J Automot. Technol. 17, 689–696 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12239-016-0068-z
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