Sips consists of a reinforced lower sill b pillar and reinforcements with energy.
Door side impact protection.
When a crash results from a side impact door beams can help protect passengers.
Without door beams there is little keeping a passenger from the point of impact.
Mmi door 36 in.
It has been standard on every new volvo since.
The purpose of this standard is to reduce the risk of serious and fatal injury to occupants of passenger cars multipurpose passenger vehicles trucks and buses in side impacts by specifying strength requirements for side doors limiting the forces.
Upgrading the side structure of passenger cars to slow down and reduce the extent of door intrusion into the passenger compartment after a side impact.
This standard specifies performance requirements for protection of occupants in side impacts.
Sips was first introduced in 1991 for the volvo 700 900 and 850 series cars of model year 1992.
The side impact protection system has been improved by putting energy absorbing materials in the doors pillars subframe rails roof and seats of vehicles.
Perhaps one of the most critical areas in terms of safety features in cars is the passenger s protection in side impacts.
A left side impact and the right front passenger in a right side impact.
S1 scope and purpose.
The effort resulted in the four tangible improvements in side impact protection that are evaluated in this report.