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Technical Standards Document
Number 401, Revision 0
Interior Trunk Release
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(Original signed by)
Director, Standards Research and Development
for the Minister of Transport,
Infrastructure and Communities
Ottawa, Ontario
Technical Standards Document
Number 401, Revision 0
INTERIOR TRUNK RELEASE
The text of this document is based on Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard No. 401, Interior Trunk Release, as published in the
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, Part 571, revised
as of October 1, 2006.
S1. Purpose and Scope
This Technical Standards Document (TSD) standard
establishes the requirement for providing a trunk release mechanism that
makes it possible for a person trapped inside the trunk compartment of
a passenger car to escape from the compartment.
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S2.
Application
[CONTENT DELETED] For applicability, see
Schedule III and subsections
401(1) and (2) of Schedule IV to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations.
S3. Definitions
Back door means a door or door system on the back end of a passenger
car through which cargo can be loaded or unloaded. The term includes the
hinged back door on a hatchback or a station wagon. (Porte arrière)
Trunk compartment
(a) Means a space that:
(1) Is intended to be used for carrying luggage or cargo,
(2) Is wholly separated from the occupant compartment of a passenger
car by a permanently attached partition or by a fixed or fold-down seat
back and/or partition,
(3) Has a trunk lid, and
(4) Is large enough so that the three-year-old child dummy described
in Subpart C of Part 572 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
can be placed inside the trunk compartment, and the trunk lid can be
closed and latched with all removable equipment furnished by the passenger
car manufacturer stowed in accordance with label(s) on the passenger
car or information in the passenger car owner's manual, or, if no information
is provided, as located when the passenger car is delivered. (Note:
For purposes of this TSD standard, the Part
572 Subpart C test dummy need not be equipped with the accelerometers
specified in Part 572.21 of the Code of Federal Regulations.)
(b) Does not include a sub-compartment within the trunk compartment.
(Coffre)
Trunk lid means a moveable body panel that is not designed or
intended as a passenger car entry point for passengers and that provides
access from outside a passenger car to a trunk compartment. The term does
not include a back door or the lid of a storage compartment located inside
the passenger compartment of a passenger car. (Couvercle de coffre)
S4. Requirements
S4.1 Each passenger car with a trunk compartment
must have an automatic or manual release mechanism inside the trunk compartment
that unlatches the trunk lid. Each trunk release shall conform, at the
manufacturer's option, to either S4.2(a) and S4.3, or S4.2(b) and S4.3.
The manufacturer shall select the option by the time it certifies the
vehicle and may not thereafter select a different option for the vehicle.
S4.2 (a) Each manual release
mechanism installed pursuant to S4.1
of this
TSD standard must include a feature, like lighting
or
phosphorescence,
that allows the release mechanism to be
easily seen
inside the closed trunk compartment.
(b) Each
automatic release mechanism installed pursuant to
S4.1 of this
TSD section must unlatch the trunk lid within
5
minutes of
when the trunk lid is closed with a person inside the
trunk compartment.
S4.3 (a) Except as provided in
paragraph S4.3(b), actuation of the
release mechanism
required by S4.1 of this TSD standard
must completely
release the trunk lid from all latching
positions
of the trunk lid latch.
(b) (1) For
passenger cars with a front trunk compartment that
has
a front opening trunk lid required to have a secondary
latching position or latch system, actuation of the release
mechanism
required by paragraph S4.1 of this TSD
standard must result in the following:
(i) When the passenger car is stationary, the release mechanism must
release the trunk lid from all latching positions or latch systems;
(ii) When the passenger car is moving forward at a speed less than 5
km/h, the release mechanism must release the trunk lid from the primary
latching position or latch system, and may release the trunk lid from
all latching positions or latch systems;
(iii) When the passenger car is moving forward at a speed of 5 km/h or
greater, the release mechanism must release the trunk lid from the primary
latching position or latch system, but must not release the trunk lid
from the secondary latching position or latch system.
(2) The passenger cars described
in paragraph S4.3(b)(1)
are excluded from the requirements
of this standard until
September 1, 2002.
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