Pedestrian Protection - Development and Concepts for the Lower Leg Impact

International IIR-Conference "Pedestrian Protection", 19./20.02.2003, Bad Homburg

Dipl.-Ing. Harald Bachem, Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (ika)

Summary:

Pedestrian protection plays a more and more important role at the improvement of the passive safety of modern cars. In this lecture the feasibility and the protection potential of current solutions for the accomplishments of the requirements in the current proposed European legislation are discussed. Thinkable solutions are shown and evaluated for the impact areas head, pelvis and leg. The last part deals with an detailed analysis of new concepts for the lower leg impact area.