Seat Lumbar Support Evaluation With ASPECT Manikin

2005-01-1007

04/11/2005

Event
SAE 2005 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Seat lumbar support is thought to be essential for seating comfort as it plays important role in the driver's fatigue during long term driving. We tried to evaluate the lumbar support performance objectively with Seat Pressure Distribution. First, the tolerance in the measurement was eliminated by application of ASPECT manikin that reproduced a human seating torso posture [1, 2]. Second, an analysis method to visualize the seat support balance on the human back was developed. Third, a hypothesis for the optimal support balance to minimize the fatigue was proposed according to the fatigue growing mechanisms. Examining the deviation of each seat result from the optimal support, the performances were quantitatively evaluated. In addition to that, the effect of the lumbar support adjuster was taken into consideration to predict the market evaluation more precisely.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-1007
Pages
7
Citation
Michida, N., Okiyama, H., and Matsuhashi, K., "Seat Lumbar Support Evaluation With ASPECT Manikin," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-1007, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-1007.
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Publisher
Published
Apr 11, 2005
Product Code
2005-01-1007
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English