SAE Technical Paper

What Is the H-Point Manikin? The H-point manikin — also called the H-Point machine, or in its simpler two-dimensional form the H-Point template — is the physical tool automakers use to locate a vehicle’s seating reference point (SgRP), the design point that everything else in the seating package is measured from. SAE J826 is the…

RATIONALE This revision reduces the complexity of this practice by simplifying the General Package Factor (G) equation, clarifying conditions for using restrained and unrestrained reach tables, removing English unit tables, clarifying the G value boundaries between each reach table, describing in more detail how to interpret when a control is considered within reach, and limiting…