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FrauDrA said:Just curious: doesn't RF tethering offer rebound control (isn't that the purpose of RF tethering?)? Why isn't it allowed on more seats? Seems that would've been an easy way to be compliant - or am I just not understanding?
FrauDrA said:Just curious: doesn't RF tethering offer rebound control (isn't that the purpose of RF tethering?)? Why isn't it allowed on more seats? Seems that would've been an easy way to be compliant - or am I just not understanding?
It prevents rebound past a certain point. Imagine a line drawn vertically from a point somewhere near the seat bight (on a test bench). I don't recall what's being measured - a point on the dummy's head? - but whatever that standardized point is, it can't cross the imaginary vertical line. Different seats achieve that in different ways. I can find the more exact specs later if you'd like.
(a) retain the torso of the anthropomorphic test device within the restraint system, and not allow any portion of the target points on either side of the device’s head, located on the transverse axis passing through the centre of mass of the de- vice’ s head and perpendicular to the head’ s mid- sagittal plane, to pass at any time, during or immediately after the test, either through the transverse orthogonal planes formed by the ex- tension of the seat back frontal surface plane of the restraint system and by the plane that passes through the uppermost point of the restraint sys- tem, as shown in Figure 7 of Schedule 7, or through the vertical transverse plane passing through point X on the standard seat assembly, as shown in Figure 8 of Schedule 7;
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