Patent ID: 9488546
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G01M

Claim Text:
1. A testing equipment for crash simulation tests, the testing equipment having the following: a rail arrangement; a first carriage arrangement which is arranged displaceably along a longitudinal axis of the rail arrangement, and an acceleration unit configured to transfer a force to the first carriage arrangement in order to accelerate the carriage arrangement; wherein the testing equipment has a second carriage arrangement, which is configured to be mounted on the rail arrangement and is displaceable along the longitudinal axis of the rail arrangement and is designed to support a test superstructure with at least one component to be tested in the crash simulation, the first carriage arrangement having a detachable clutch which is designed to engage with the second carriage arrangement in such a way that at least a part of the force, when present and the detachable clutch is engaged, is transferred to the second carriage arrangement from the acceleration unit via the first carriage arrangement.