Abdominal sensors from Humanetics will be available from December 2013.
The dummy kinematic does not produce abdominal loading in any test configurations even without booster (P. LESIRE).
A Task Force lead by Heïko Johanssen is working to improve this situation (plastic insert on pelvis area, new abdominal & thorax sensors).
Hans Ammerlaan (RDW) is afraid that phase 2 will offer a new regulation, new dummies, new side impact but no solution to verify adequate abdominal protection.
Paul Lemmen (Humanetics) explains that the Q10 will be used in frontal impact for R129 but also thanks to a replacement parts kit in lateral impact for EuroNCAP.
Dinos Visvikis (TRL) questioned if we are assuming that all vehicles can actually offer protection for children > 135cm. Would they all have mandatory side airbags?
Tommy Petterson (VTI) asked the chair if a CRS that is adjustable from 135 statures to 150 statures, is considered to be Universal. The chair (P. Castaing) confirmed that the answer is “Yes” if it fits the ISO gabarit for the declared range of sizes.
A summary of the discussions was given by the Chair, by request of Ronald Vroman.
The child needs to be protected in Side impact until a certain head position (height). 1st proposition: dimension of 135 cm child. 2nd proposal seating height of head, compared to 5 percentile female. We need to ensure that these Crs-ses are universal, and we need to have the maximum achievable envelope.
CRS can be larger than the [135] envelope, but they need to have a usage configuration to fit within the [135] envelope. This would be still fall under the concept of universal. It is assumed that the vehicle will be protecting children in side impact safely above [135] cm.