Description / Abstract:
This SAE Recommended Practice defines minimum performance
standards, qualification requirements, and minimum documentation
requirements for Integrated Lap and Shoulder Restraint (to)
equipped Seats (ILSRTS). The goal is to achieve comfort,
durability, and occupant protection under expected and foreseeable
normal operation loads. The document attempts to define test and
evaluation criteria to demonstrate performance at peak operational
loads, while attempting to maintain the seat's ability to meet
loads set forth in FMVSS207, 210, and ECE 14, 16 and 17.
This document also provides guidance for design by enumerating
certain design goals to enhance comfort, serviceability, and
safety. Guidance for test procedures, measurements, equipment, and
interpretation of results may be presented to promote uniform
techniques and to achieve acceptable data.
While this document addresses system performance, responsibility
for the seating systems is divided between the seat supplier and
the vehicle OEM. The seat suppliers' responsibility consists of
meeting all the established system performance requirements and
obtaining and supplying to the vehicle OEM all the data prescribed
by this document. The vehicle OEM has the ultimate system
responsibility in assuring that all requirements for safe seat
applications have been met.