The first baby seat with airbag reduces injuries by 55% in case of accident

Baby seat with airbag reduces injuries by 55% in case of accident

Inspired by airbag vests for bikers, professional riders or skiers, Baby Confort-MaxiCosi has designed the first baby seat with airbag coming to market.


After years of research in collaboration with the French company Helite - specializing in these protection systems - the AissFix Air is intended to prevent serious injuries to children in the event of an accident.

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According to the recent report "The Impact of Road Traffic Accident Injuries", produced by the DGT in collaboration with the Línea Directa Foundation, in the last decade in Spain there have been 912,000 accidents, with 1.3 million accidents victims, almost three percent of the country's population.

44% of children who died and 30% of those seriously injured did not have a Child Retention System (SRI). Precisely accidents due to multiple collision or caravan, range collisions and frontal and lateral collisions are more frequent, where children suffer vertebral injuries in the cervical area.

Technological innovation

The tests to this chair with airbags were carried out the Laboratory of Tests of Baby Confort in Cholet (France), following the exams of RACE-ADAC. Although it is a stroller that can be placed to counter-gear and in favor of the march, it is designed so that the protections jump when the child goes in favor of the march, from 87 centimeters of height and 18 kilos. The company explains that they are still testing and working to incorporate these airbags in other models so that the babies travel to countermarch more time.

"The AissFix Air model follows the i-Size standard, which obliges children to be at a minimum, up to 15 months, although it is always advisable to keep children in that position for as long as possible. The tests were done with dummies similar to babies of a year and a half and three years. And the results show that, in the event of an accident, the force acting on the vertebrae is reduced by 55% in the event of whiplash, "says Iván Chica, responsible for Baby Confort Marketing.

 The first baby seat with airbag reduces injuries by 55% in case of accident
"This chair aims to protect the child when his parents put him in favor of the march early, with two years or so. When the child grows and strengthens neck muscles, with the three-year dummies we observe that the impact in the event of an accident is reduced to 45%. "

Air Safety technology hides airbags in the safety harnesses. And the sensors that detect an accident are in the isofix anchors. In this way, the activation algorithm jumps when the sensor detects an impact.

Only 15 milliseconds later sends a signal and the airbags are activated in the same direction as the head and neck would move. In just 80 milliseconds the airbags inflate like a cushion that cushions the displacement and in a second they deflate, so there is no risk of suffocation. The AxissFix Air works with a CO2 cartridge, but the airbags are filled with cold air, completely harmless, so it does not cause burns, and could maintain its effectiveness for 10 years

"The price of this chair is 649 euros. As the detonator system is inside the structure becomes unusable after fulfilling its function in case of accident. It seems to us that after going through the trance of a collision in which a child was traveling should not be another problem a disbursement like that. It is a chair designed to avoid injuries and it can not be that if a family can not afford to buy two chairs it will be left without that protection. So all customers who have this model and has jumped the airbag in an accident where the child was traveling can bring his chair and we will change it for a new one free, "concludes the spokesman for the brand.

The first baby seat with airbag