Abstract

Car seat is one of the most important parts of the direct contact with consumers, consumers' subjective perception of seat comfort depends on the choice of car, and the automobile industry in the perception of car seat comfort evaluation and research work, is still in its infancy, convened by the project through to the six major cities, 900 consumers respectively for 18 to subjective comfort evaluation of standard models, this article selects three same level models of standard models, for example, through the factor analysis method to calculate the subjective comfort ratings, and use the objective measurement data of subjective rating transverse comparison test. The results show that the subjective comfort score can reflect the comfort degree of the seat.

Highlights

  • In recent years, with the progress and development of automotive technology, people’s requirement about vehicle comfort increased constantly, comfort has become one of the most factors gained consumers' attention

  • This article set up subjective evaluation questionnaire base on the seat perceived comfort evaluation system, setting different types of evaluation questions which focus on the main design area of the seat, and let the consumers grade one by one

  • This result is contrary to our common perception that the higher the seat noise value is, the worse the consumer comfort is and the lower the subjective evaluation score is

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Summary

Introduction

With the progress and development of automotive technology, people’s requirement about vehicle comfort increased constantly, comfort has become one of the most factors gained consumers' attention. According to the research from CATARC, in 2015 and 2016, comfort was the most primary concern of consumers in all the product indicators. Even in 2017, comfort was concerned secondly, following the quality. Seat comfort is the most vital part forming the vehicle comfort. Being one of the most direct feeling to vehicle comfort of consumers, seat perceived comfort became one of the most vital factor while consumers purchasing cars[1]. This article focuses on seat assemblies in different quality (Involve brand, material etc.), implementing the factor analysis about subjective perceived comfort, from the dimensions of smell, touch, vision, hearing and so on

Source of subjective comfort evaluation data
Subjective comfort evaluation data processing
Weight calculation
Verification and analysis of seat subjective comfort evaluation index
Tactile comfort evaluation and chair foam hardness test
Evaluation results Ford Edge HILANDER ENVISION
Evaluation results HILANDER
Conclusion and Prospect
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