Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01344:body:0:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01344
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 10672–14447

2012
Supplement 2 to the 08 series of amendments - Date of entry into force: 10 June 2014
Supplement 3 to the 08 series of amendments – Date of entry into force: 20 January 2016

Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to the seats, their anchorages and any head restraints
Regulation No. 17
  Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to the seats, their anchorages and any head restraints
Contents
   Page
    1. Scope ........................................................ 10
    2. Definitions ..................................................... 10
    3. Application for approval ............................................ 12
    4. Approval ...................................................... 13
    5. Requirements ................................................... 14
    6. Tests ......................................................... 20
    7. Conformity of production ........................................... 24
    8. Penalties for non‑conformity of production ......................... 24
9. Modifications of the vehicle type and extension of approval with respect to the seats,
their anchorages and/or their head restraints................................ 24
    10. Production definitively discontinued .................................... 25
    11. Instruction for use ................................................ 25
    12. Names and addresses of Technical Services responsible for conducting approval tests, and
     of Type Approval Authorities ........................................ 25
    13. Transitional provisions ............................................. 25
Annexes

    1 Communication................................................... 27
    2 Arrangements of the approval mark ..................................... 29
    3 Procedure for determining the "H" point and the actual torso angle for seating
     positions in motor vehicles........................................... 31
     Appendix 1 - Description of the three-dimensional "H" point machine .............. 31
     Appendix 2 - Three-dimensional reference system ........................... 31
     Appendix 3 - Reference data concerning seating positions...................... 31
    4 Determination of the height and width of head restraints ....................... 32
    5 Details of lines and measurements taken during tests ......................... 34
    6 Test procedure for checking energy dissipation ............................. 36
7 Method for testing the strength of seat anchorages and their adjustment, locking
and displacement systems ........................................... 38
    8 Determination of dimension "a" of head restraint gaps ........................ 39
9 Test procedure for devices intended to protect the occupants against displacement
of luggage ..................................................... 41
     Appendix - Corridor of sled's deceleration or acceleration as a function of time
      (Simulation of frontal impact)................................ 44

  1.  Scope
 This Regulation applies to:
(a) Vehicles of categories M1 and N[1] with regard to the strength of seats and their anchorages and with regard to their head restraints;
(b) Vehicles of categories M2 and M31 with regard to seats not covered by Regulation No. 80, in respect of the strength of seats and their anchorages, and in respect of their head restraints;
(c) Vehicles of category M1 with regard to the design of the rear parts of seat backs and the design of devices intended to protect the occupants from the danger resulting from the displacement of luggage in a frontal impact.
 It does not apply to vehicles with regard to side-facing or rearward-facing seats, or to any head