Bending strain measurement apparatus for an abdomen of an anthropomorphic dummy and abdominal injury presumption apparatus using the same

An abdominal injury presumption apparatus for an abdomen of an anthropomorphic dummy comprising:

• a band constituted of an elastic thin plate member, arranged in a longitudinal direction of said abdomen, having one end thereof fixed in a vicinity of said abdomen of said dummy and a plurality of gauges arranged on said band in a longitudinal direction thereof for detecting a bending strain of said abdomen when an obstacle collides with said abdomen;
• a measuring device for measuring time history of the bending strain based on a bending strain of respective portions of said band detected by said gauges arranged on said band as a time transition of the bending strain of the respective portions of the band;
• a deformation and deformational velocity measurement device for measuring time histories of deformation and deformational velocity of the respective portions of said band, based on bending strain of said respective portions of said band detected by said gauges;
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• an injury presumption device for presuming abdominal injuries based on the time histories of the deformation and deformational velocity.