Concept development of an integrated rear-facing child seat structure
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
Program
Product development (MPPDE), MSc
Publicerad
2024
Författare
Sumant, Abhijit
Dawkare, Swapnil
Modellbyggare
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Sammanfattning
This Master of Science (MSc) thesis project aims to develop a concept for rearfacing
child seat structures. It was conducted in collaboration with Volvo cars and
explores a new child seat and safety product design approach, differentiating from
traditional front-facing integrated child seat design. The project’s uniqueness lies in
its approach to seamlessly integrating child safety within the standard adult seat,
simplifying the operation and ensuring optimal safety for young passengers.
Product development methods and techniques such as literature study, data gathering,
needs and requirement analysis, concept selection, product architecture, concept
design, product analysis, and design validation are used to achieve the goal. The
above process resulted in a functional concept of rearward-facing integrated child
seats with different operational mechanisms. The product meets the user and technical
requirements derived from the qualitative data research. It is important to
note here that the product is verified for the requirements and not validated due
to limitations such as a compact timeline, lack of expertise in FEM and lack of
resources.
In conclusion, our team has prepared a baseline for further advanced product development
and contributed to establishing a way forward in reducing the time during
design improvements and analysis. .