Plastic Housings for Safety Critical Air Bag Triggering Units 970131
The automotive industry has been very reluctant in using plastic housings for air bag triggering units. The critical question has always been: “Can the accelerometers, mounted inside the air bag triggering unit, discriminate the crash pulse satisfactorily? And can it also do so under all environmental circumstances and over the specified life span?”
This paper describes the steps which were necessary to introduce plastic housings into the market for air bag triggering units.
Citation: Zechmair, D., Baur, R., and Wörle, E., "Plastic Housings for Safety Critical Air Bag Triggering Units," SAE Technical Paper 970131, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/970131. Download Citation
Author(s):
Derrick Zechmair, Richard Baur, Engelbert Wörle
Affiliated:
TEMIC Telefunken Microelectronic GmbH
Pages: 7
Event:
SAE International Congress and Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Occupant Protection and Injury Assessment in the Automotive Crash Environment-SP-1231
Related Topics:
Airbag systems
Safety critical systems
Plastics
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