Analysis of electrostatic discharge (ESD) for the human body and an automobile environment

Author

Greason, William D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

12-15 Oct. 1998

Firstpage

1758

Abstract

The objective of this work was to analyze possible electrostatic discharge (ESD) events involving the interface between the human body and an automobile. Charge generated by triboelectrification for a vehicle in motion and the interface between clothing worn by the human body and a vehicle´s seats are prime causes for automotive ESD. The concept of a coupling factor can be utilized to predict values of discharge parameters for the limiting cases of typical situations involving the charged human body, another human body and an automobile.

Keywords

automobiles; electric charge; electrostatic discharge; triboelectricity; ESD events; automobile environment; automotive ESD; charge generation; clothing; coupling factor; discharge parameters; electrostatic discharge; human body; triboelectrification; vehicle seats; Automobiles; Automotive engineering; Capacitance; Circuit testing; Electrostatic analysis; Electrostatic discharge; Humans; Immune system; Land vehicles; Road vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 1998. Thirty-Third IAS Annual Meeting. The 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO, USA

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4943-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.1998.729810

Filename

729810