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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 167, 2018
2018 3rd International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing, Modeling and Mechatronics (IC4M 2018) – 2018 3rd International Conference on Design, Engineering and Science (ICDES 2018)
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| Article Number | 02017 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201816702017 | |
| Published online | 23 April 2018 | |
Optimization of Design Parameters of Spiral Spring for Active Headrest Deployment
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School, Kongju National University, Korea
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, (Industrial Technology Research Institute) Kongju National University, Korea
a Corresponding author: osjun@kongju.ac.kr
Several studies have been conducted to prevent neck injury in rear-end collision. The headrest of the seat which suppresses the relative motion of the head and the torso can suppress the extension of the head, thereby alleviating the injury. The active headrest has a mechanism that supports the head by deploying the headrest at the rear-end collision. The spring remains compressed or twisted until a collision signal is generated and the headrest is deployed after the collision signal. Depending on the shape and deployment structure of the spring, a spring design with a high resilience that is acceptable to the headrest is required. In this paper, design parameter of spiral spring suitable for the structure of the developed headrest is selected, prototypes are fabricated, and development parameters such as development time and development distance are checked and optimal design parameters of the spiral spring are derived. The feasibility of the headrest with the designed spiral spring was verified by the finite element analysis.
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