School of Robotics, Kwangwoon University, 60 Gwangun-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01890, Korea.
Vitesco Technologies Korea, 45-29 Saeum-Ro, Icheon-si 17308, Korea.
Sensors (Basel). 2021 Nov 29;21(23):7959. doi: 10.3390/s21237959.
The seat comfort of automobiles is one of the significant factors for determining the driver's fatigue, emotional experience, and individual space (which captures their individuality, rather than just a means of transportation in modern society). Conventional automobile seats could not provide seating comfort suitable for all drivers, in the form of seats that fit each driver's body type and the difficulty of meeting individual needs. This study proposes self-shape adjustable (the SSA seats) seats that improve the sitting comfort, safety, and secure the stability, by adjusting shape fit to the driver's body type. The SSA seats transforms the seat itself, in a way that improves the distribution of contact pressure and reduces sitting fatigue, with the pneumatic system. The transformed seats provide better sitting comfort and safety than the conventional automobile seat, by providing a seat shape suitable for the body shape of all users. It was verified that the SSA seats, proposed in this paper, have a uniform and improved pressure distribution, compared to the conventional seat, in various sitting postures; the contact area between the seat and user is enlarged, and the pressure concentrated on the ischial bone is lowered. In addition, it was proven (through user evaluation) that quantitative evaluation verification was the same as qualitative evaluation results.
汽车座椅的舒适度是决定驾驶员疲劳程度、情绪体验和个人空间(在现代社会中,个人空间不仅是一种交通工具,更代表了其个性)的重要因素之一。传统汽车座椅无法以适合每个驾驶员体型的座椅形式提供适合所有驾驶员的舒适感,也很难满足个人需求。本研究提出了一种自形状可调(SSA 座椅)座椅,通过调整座椅形状以适应驾驶员的体型,从而提高座椅的舒适度、安全性和稳定性。SSA 座椅通过气动系统改变座椅本身,改善了接触压力分布,减轻了坐姿疲劳。与传统汽车座椅相比,这种可变形座椅为所有用户提供了更适合其体型的座椅形状,从而提供了更好的舒适度和安全性。本文提出的 SSA 座椅在各种坐姿下的压力分布比传统座椅更加均匀和改善,座椅与用户的接触面积增大,坐骨骨上的压力降低。此外,通过用户评估证明,定量评估验证与定性评估结果一致。