Q3 - 3 Year Old Child
Q3 - 3 Year Old Child
Q3 - 3 Year Old Child
Q3 - 3 Year Old Child
Q3 - 3 Year Old Child

Q-Series Q3 Dummy

  • Standard Q3 ATD 020-0001

In the early 1990s, statistics showed that there was much room for improvement in the design of child restraint systems (CRS) in vehicles. The existing P-Series of child dummies used for testing CRS had a simple design and were limited in their measurement capability.

Our Q-Series of child dummies were developed in 1993 as successors to the P-Series in the hopes of giving engineers the information they needed to design greater impact protection for children in cars. This new generation of dummies has much better anthropometry, biomechanics, and kinematics, all key to better evaluating the risk of injury to varying ages and sizes of child passengers. The Q-Series can be used in frontal or side impact testing, and the instrumentation is interchangeable within the dummy series.

The Q3 dummy is suitable for frontal as well as side impact CRS evaluations, to be used for both homologation, consumer rating, and research purposes.

    Specifications
    Key Features
    • Rigid plastic skull with accelerometer cavity, soft durable head skin with biofidelic response.
    • Neck consists of rubber segments between metal plates to allow realistic flexion, extension and lateral flexion rotational behavior.
    • Shoulder incorporates a ball and socket joint to simulate the humerus-scapula joint with a scapula distributing load at the back.
    • Frictional adjustment included for positioning the arms.
    • Abdomen: APTS pressure sensors to measure belt pressure, particularly for submarining
    • Sit-stand designs, anatomically shaped bony parts from anatomical data and child X-rays.
    Sitting Height 544 mm 21.4 in
    Stature 985 mm 38.8 in
    Shoulder Height 329 mm 13 in
    Shoulder Width 259 mm 10.2 in
    Chest Depth 114 mm 4.5 in
    Hip Width 200 mm 7.9 in
    Buttock to Knee 305 mm 12 in
    Buttock to popliteus, sitting 253 mm 10 in
    Total Weight 14.59 kg 32.2 lb
    • Vehicular front and side impact testing.
    WHERE USED DEFINING REGULATION
    ANCAP E/ECE/324/Rev.2/Add.128 E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2/Add. 128 Annex 8. UN R129
    ASEAN NCAP E/ECE/324/Rev.2/Add.128 E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2/Add. 128 Annex 8. UN R129
    C-NCAP E/ECE/324/Rev.2/Add.128 E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2/Add. 128 Annex 8. UN R129
    Euro NCAP E/ECE/324/Rev.2/Add.128 E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2/Add. 128 Annex 8. UN R129
    KNCAP E/ECE/324/Rev.2/Add.128 E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2/Add. 128 Annex 8. UN R129
    Latin NCAP E/ECE/324/Rev.2/Add.128 E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2/Add. 128 Annex 8. UN R129
    UN R129 E/ECE/324/Rev.2/Add.128 E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2/Add. 128 Annex 8. UN R129
    Linear Accels Axyz Angular Velocity Load Cells Displacement Pressure
    Head Axyz Head ωxyz Neck Upper Fxyz, Mxyz Ribcage Dx, Dy APTS 2 (abdomen)
    Thorax Axyz Neck Lower Fxyz, Mxyz
    Pelvis Axyz Lower Lumbar Fxyz, Mxyz
    Rib Cage Axy