Apparatus for carrying out a crash test on a motor vehicle

Details Apparatus for carrying out a crash test on a motor vehicle Apparatus for carrying out a crash test on a motor vehicle

1996-07-29

1997-06-03

Dougherty, Elizabeth L.

Measuring and testing

Testing by impact or shock

73 1204, 738653, G02M 700

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056356242

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for carrying out a crash test on a motor vehicle is described, in which the vehicle is accelerated on a track by means of a driving arrangement before it strikes an obstacle. A data recording unit associated with the vehicle and serving to record the measuring data of the crash test is not mounted on the vehicle itself, but on a follower vehicle guided behind the vehicle. This follower vehicle has associated with it a braking mechanism, which brings about braking of it before the vehicle crashes against the obstacle. A measuring cable connection is provided between the vehicle and the follower vehicle, which has a length at least great enough to cover the distance between the vehicle in the crashed condition and the follower vehicle in the braked condition. Preferably, a cable storage device for the measuring cable is provided on the follower vehicle, from which the measuring cable is hung in meander-like loops and is automatically released on braking of the follower vehicle.

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