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Intuitive Child Safety Seat to Increase Security

Award Number: R44HD097846
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 04/01/2019
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2025

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Intuitive Child Safety Seat to Increase Security - Project Summary/Abstract Minnesota HealthSolutions Corporation (MHS) proposes to develop a child safety seat with a novel intuitive harness tensioning system to improve the rate of proper harnessing of children into child safety seats. Children are harnessed into child safety seats via a 5-point harness with shoulder straps that buckle at the crotch. The entire harness assembly must be properly tensioned to ensure safety. Loose harnesses are a common misuse in child safety seats. Several large studies have observed that only 10% to 20% of children are correctly harnessed into correctly installed seats. Improper use of child restraints substantially reduces their effectiveness and is a major public health concern. The proposed child safety seat will utilize an all mechanical, intuitive system to improve proper use of the child safety seat harness. We hypothesize that a child safety seat that provides an intuitive and easy-to-use harness system will significantly improve the rate of proper child safety seat usage and reduce vehicle crash-related child injuries and deaths. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has been assembled to define, build, and evaluate a prototype system.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $914,790 )
2024	2024	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	3	8/14/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$914,790
2024	2023	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE STE 440	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	11/2/2023	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $914,790

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $922,259 )
2023	2023	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE STE 440	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	9/18/2023	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$922,259
														Subtotal = $922,259

Grand Total All Awards = $1,837,049

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Intuitive Child Safety Seat to Increase Security

Award Number: R44HD097846

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 04/01/2019

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2025

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