TY - JOUR PY - 2003// TI - Quantitative analysis of muscular stress during ingress/egress of the vehicle JO - JSAE review A1 - Namamoto, K. A1 - Atsumi, Bunji A1 - Kodera, H A1 - Kanamori, Hiroo SP - 335 EP - 339 VL - 24 IS - 3 N2 - Recently elderly users have been increasing in number, and the ease of ingress/egress of the vehicle becomes an important issue. In this paper, a method of evaluating the muscular stress during ingress/egress using several MVC (maximum-voluntary-contraction) was proposed. Further MVC for elderly people was measured as well as for young people, and the increasing ratio of muscular stress for elderly people was made clear as compared with young people. Thus the necessity of an assisting tool for elderly people was confirmed quantitatively.
LA - SN - 0389-4304 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0389-4304(03)00038-9 ID - ref1 ER -