Citation

Takehara S, Suda Y, Yamaguchi D. Trans. Soc. Automot. Eng. Jpn. 2010; 41(6): 1439-1444.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan)

DOI

10.11351/jsaeronbun.41.1439

PMID

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Abstract

Recently, the demand on an improvement of comfort in the automobiles has increased. When it is considered the car as a room, the space planning of the seat arrangement influences the comfort greatly. In this research, the seat arrangement with rotating seat for improvement of passenger comfort is proposed. To rotate seat inside the room of the car can increase communication of passenger. To rotate seat outside the room of the car can produce private space. Therefore the comfort can be improved. In this paper, the sensory evaluation is performed. This result shows the effect of comfort-improvement.

Language: ja

Keywords

Comfort; Human engineering; Seat Arrangement; Vision