Handi Mobil and MiniCrosser A/S has established a cooperative relationship in terms of development and testing of restraint systems combined with electrical wheelchairs and occupants, in vehicles. The purpose of the relationship is to be able to fulfill the ISO standards, and to test the strenght and the safety in the two companies products.

The safety is testet by a dynamic crashtest at 48 km/h and 20 G, in the swedish testinginstitute SP Sveriges Provnings och Forskningsinstitut.

The crashtest is performed with a 76,5 kilo testdummy seatet in the product we wish to test, e.g. a MC Jazzy electrical wheelchair model 1120. The wheelchair and the testdummy is restrained on a sledge by a Q'Straint QRT restraint system.

The sledge is then accelerated to a speed of 48 km/h, and decelerated to 0 km/h within 15 milliseconds. This sudden change in speed creates an impact of 20 G. In other words, the testet items will gain a total weight of 20 times their own mass. In this case, this equals almost 4 tonnes. The testing conditions are rather extreme, which is underlined by the fact that an adult human being in good physical shape, under normal circumstances will not survive a load of 15 G.

The restraint system is mounted in accordance with the ISO 10542-2 standards and the wheelchair is mounted in accordance with the ISO 7176-19 standards. After the test, all items has to be intact, and it should be possible to loosen the restraints without using tools of any kind.

We have crashtestet four different models of MiniCrossers electrical wheelchairs with the Q'Straint 4-point wheelchair and occupant restraintsystem. All four tests was succesfully performed.

The main purpose for both companies to work together in this kind of testing relationship is a mutual desire of being abreast of the technological and legal developments. In this manner, we can offer our customers the best product quality and safety standards.