Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
296187040 | Pedestrian | 34 |
20080217959 | PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A pedestrian protection apparatus for a vehicle, including: a plate member, which includes front and rear portions, and which is fixed at the rear portion to the vehicle; and at least one reinforcing bead each formed integrally on the front portion of the plate member and each including a bead-extending portion and a bead-end portion which extends integrally from a rear-side edge of the bead-extending portion for connecting the rear-side edge and the rear portion of the plate member, the apparatus being arranged to sweep a leg portion of a pedestrian that has collided with the front of the vehicle by contact of a front end of the plate member with the leg portion, thereby protecting the leg portion, wherein a connecting portion between the bead-end portion and the rear portion of the plate member is gently curved without being folded. | 09-11-2008 |
20080296932 | Intermediate Front Fender Support Element for a Motor Vehicle and Production Method Thereof - The invention relates to a support element ( | 12-04-2008 |
20080315626 | Passive Protection Device for a Motor Vehicle - A device for the reduction of injuries in the event of a motor-vehicle accident comprises an adapter inserted between the vehicle bodywork and adjacent internal vehicle components to reduce the free space distance between the bodywork and the components. The free space distance is the shortest direct distance between a vehicle component and the adjacent bodywork which is free from other parts. The adapter changes the energy transfer involved in a collision between a person and the vehicle, in order to reduce the risk of injury to the head. | 12-25-2008 |
20090026798 | PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION APPARATUS FOR FRONT END OF VEHICLE - A pedestrian protection apparatus for use in an upper frame of a front end module of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a mounting part fastened to the upper frame, a shock absorbing part extending from the mounting part towards the front end of the vehicle, and a plurality of ribs extending between the mounting part and the shock absorbing part. The front end of the shock absorbing part may extend towards the boundary between the hood and the bumper of the vehicle. The front end of the shock absorbing part may extend about 15-20 mm beyond the front ends of the ribs, towards the front end of the vehicle. Each of the ribs may have a concave surface between the mounting part and the shock absorbing part. | 01-29-2009 |
20090072585 | Pedestrian Safety Structure for a Motor Vehicle Body - The present invention relates to a pedestrian safety structure for a motor vehicle body having a soft-nose outer skin panel and a bonnet providing an overlying structure for a grille opening reinforcing front cross member. The grille opening reinforcing front cross member carries a plurality of brackets. The brackets are designed to support loads distributed thereupon by the overlying structure, vertical (Z) loads in the range of 1.0-1.5 kN and longitudinal (X) loads in the range of 0.4-0.6 kN. The brackets are further designed for energy absorbing deformation when subjected to longitudinal (X) loads distributed thereupon by the overlying structure above 0.6 kN, such that the plurality of brackets provide an energy absorbing upper leg impact zone for the protection of pedestrians in the event of a collision with the motor vehicle. | 03-19-2009 |
20090091158 | ENGINE COMPARTMENT HOOD LATCH STRUCTURE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A hood latch structure ( | 04-09-2009 |
20090278383 | PEDESTRIAN SAFETY HOOD STOP - A vehicle hood stop arranged to collapse if the vehicle hood is struck by an object with an impact force exceeding a predetermined limit. The hood stop includes an upper section arranged below a lower surface of the hood, a lower section arranged to be attached to the vehicle, and at least one impact absorbing sections, where a first impact absorbing sections includes at least three collapsible supporting members arranged to diverge from one another as they extend from the upper section toward the lower section. | 11-12-2009 |
20090289471 | Safety System - A safety system for a vehicle is incorporated within the structure of the vehicle. The system includes an energy absorbing structure which may collapse, crumple, deform or otherwise absorb energy under impact. A mounting arrangement moves the structure relative to the vehicle in the event that an imminent collision is sensed by a sensor. In one example, the structure is moved forward, relative to the vehicle, to leave a gap between the structure and hard components of the vehicle, such as the radiator, engine block or the like. This increase in distance results in a greater amount of energy being absorbed from the person, before the person can impact the hard components. | 11-26-2009 |
20090295193 | Impact-Absorbing Device for Vehicle Hood - An impact-absorbing device installed at a leading edge of a vehicle hood to protect a pedestrian is disclosed. The impact-absorbing device includes a fixing member fixed to a body frame on an inside of the vehicle hood and having a guide portion formed at a front end thereof, a buffer member fixed to an upper surface of the guide portion and having specified torsional rigidity, a center portion of the buffer member being bent in a convex shape, first and second supports, each provided in the center portion and both ends of the buffer member, for supporting the leading edge of the vehicle hood, and a guide member fixed to an upper surface of the buffer member and supporting the first support slidably. | 12-03-2009 |
20100045070 | LINING FOR THE HOOD OF AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE AND COMBINATIONS THEREOF WITH CERTAIN PARTS OF THE VEHICLE - A motor vehicle hood lining for stiffening the hood in the vicinity of its periphery and co-operating therewith to form a hollow body over at least a fraction of its periphery, the lining being generally of channel section with a bottom and side walls. Said bottom or at least one of said side walls presents, at least locally, a zone of weakness that is dimensioned in such a manner that in the event of the hood impacting the head of a pedestrian, once the bottom of the hollow body has come to bear against a high hard point placed in the engine compartment, the zone of weakness breaks. The invention also relates to a combination of such a lining with various hard points in an engine compartment. | 02-25-2010 |
20100201155 | Automobile Body Part - In a car body or component of a car body with at least one first component of sheet metal of a first aluminium alloy (A) and at least one second component of sheet metal of a second aluminium alloy (B), the first and second aluminium alloy are of type AlMgSi and in the sheet metal of the second aluminium alloy (B) a substantial part of the elements Mg and Si, which are required to achieve artificial ageing in solid solution, is present in the form of separate Mg | 08-12-2010 |
20100244484 | PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A pedestrian protection device for a vehicle is provided at a vehicle-body front portion which comprises an engine room, a cowl box provided at an upper portion of a dash panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, and an engine hood pivotally supported at the vehicle body via a first hinge provided at a rear end portion so as to cover over the engine room. An engine-hood guide mechanism guides the engine hood upwardly and rearwardly so as to cover at least part of the cowl box when a collision of a pedestrian against a front bumper face is detected or predicted, and lowers the engine hood downwardly when a load acting on the engine hood exceeds a specified load. | 09-30-2010 |
20110127798 | Stiffener for Vehicle - A stiffener for a vehicle, may include a coupling stiffener part, an upper stiffener part extending integrally from an upper end of the coupling stiffener part, and protruding to a forward direction of the vehicle with a predetermined length, and a lower stiffener part extending integrally from a lower end of the coupling stiffener part, and protruding to the forward direction of the vehicle, with a predetermined length, wherein the coupling stiffener is secured to a bumper back beam, and wherein the upper stiffener part and the lower stiffener part are complementarily operated about the coupling stiffener part serving as a support shaft in a seesaw type manner to absorb shocks, in the event of a collision between the vehicle and a pedestrian. | 06-02-2011 |
20110181073 | PEDESTRIAN IMPACT MITIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A system for and method of mitigating pedestrian impact utilizing an energy absorption member, such as an expandable honeycomb celled matrix, and at least one tether disposed within a recessed formation defined by the vehicle and interconnected to the member and a drive mechanism, wherein the member is selectively caused to extend and be spaced from an exterior surface. | 07-28-2011 |
20130015682 | VEHICLE HOOD STRUCTUREAANM Ikeda; KokiAACI Toyota-shiAACO JPAAGP Ikeda; Koki Toyota-shi JPAANM Yonezawa; SeihoAACI Toyota-shiAACO JPAAGP Yonezawa; Seiho Toyota-shi JP - A hood structure that is for a vehicle and that can cause an increase in energy absorption performance when colliding with a collided object. An undulating section wherein beads and concavities are provided in alternation along the widthwise direction of the hood and that has a wavy shape in a cross sectional view is formed at nearly the entire central region of a hood inner panel. In the cross section of the wavy shape of the undulating section, the widthwise measurement between the peaks of the beads that are formed on both adjacent sides of any given bead side from the two on the ends among the plurality of beads is set in a manner so as to be smaller than 165 mm, which is the outer diameter of a head impactor that simulates the head of a pedestrian. | 01-17-2013 |
20130026785 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT HOOD BUMPER - A hood bumper assembly for automotive vehicle hoods is provided that can manage impact energy from a collision with a pedestrian. The hood bumper assembly may have a bumper with a cushion that is threaded to a retainer attached to the vehicle frame. The threaded engagement between the bumper and the retainer may have a percentage of thread engagement that is less than industry standards so that the threads skip without substantially deforming when an impact load is applied to the vehicle hood. | 01-31-2013 |
20130033069 | ACTIVE HOOD APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - Provided is an active hood apparatus for a vehicle including a main frame, a hood latch assembly, and a hood rise and fall device. The main frame is fixed to a vehicle body. The hood latch assembly is disposed at a back side of the main frame to lock and release a hood. The hood rise and fall device is disposed between the back side of the main frame and the hood latch assembly to move the hood latch assembly substantially vertically by a control signal of a controller that receives a sensing signal from a pedestrian collision sensor. | 02-07-2013 |
20130049400 | MOTOR VEHICLE BODY - A motor vehicle body includes, but is not limited to a front hood, a windshield rising from a rear edge of the front hood and a cross member substantially extending over the width of the windshield, of which a front edge supports a front lower edge of the windshield and a rear edge is supported on a structural element of the body. A top side of the cross member faces the passenger cell and a bottom side faces the engine compartment. Between the front edge and the rear edge the cross member comprises at least one first region, in which the top side is concavely curved in a section plane running in vehicle longitudinal direction and which yields to a load by intensifying the curvature along an apex line yielding towards the engine compartment and pivoting of two zones extending on both sides of the apex line towards each other. | 02-28-2013 |
20130088042 | VEHICLE IMPACT REDUCTION STRUCTURE - A vehicle structure comprising a body including a wheel house, a fender and an energy absorption member. The fender has an exposed A-side surface and an opposed B-side surface, with the fender including a laterally inner edge extending fore-and-aft that defines a portion of a hood opening, and the B-side surface adjacent to the laterally inner edge spaced from the wheel house in a vertical direction to define a crush gap. The energy absorption member is located in the crush gap between the wheel house and the fender, with the energy absorption member having a fender attachment flange secured to the B-side surface of the fender adjacent to the laterally inner edge, a body attachment flange secured to the wheel house, and an energy absorbing portion extending between the fender attachment flange and the body attachment flange, with the energy absorbing portion being curved in the vertical direction. | 04-11-2013 |
20130193715 | MOTOR VEHICLE BODY - A motor vehicle body with a front hood, a front window rising from a rear edge of the front hood, and an elongated cross member is provided. The elongated cross member includes a middle region curved channel-like in section in a vehicle longitudinal direction. A contact zone of the elongated cross member supports a lower edge of the front window and a longitudinal end supports the elongated cross member. A transition region is between the longitudinal end and the middle region and, in section in the vehicle longitudinal direction, is less curved than the middle region. | 08-01-2013 |
20130341964 | MOTOR VEHICLE BODY - A motor vehicle body is provided. The motor vehicle body includes a front bonnet, a front window rising out of a rear margin of the front bonnet and a cross member extending in width direction of the front window. A front flange of the cross member supports a front lower margin of the front window, a rear flange being supported on a structural element of the body, and a first intermediate piece extends from an upper rear margin of the front flange towards the rear flange. The rear flange is widened towards the front by a second intermediate piece beyond a support area of the structural element. The intermediate pieces are linked via a bending zone that is convex towards the engine compartment. | 12-26-2013 |
20140028051 | VEHICLE FRONT STRUCTURE - A vehicle front structure includes: an exterior member provided at a lower portion of a front end of a vehicle; and an energy absorbing bracket having front and rear ends, the front end facing a rear surface of the exterior member and the rear end being mounted on a vehicle structural member. The energy absorbing bracket has an upper surface which is disposed to be inclined downward toward a front of the vehicle, and the inclination increases continuously or stepwise from a rear of the vehicle to the front of the vehicle, lower vehicle width direction ribs which project downward from the upper surface, extend substantially in a vehicle width direction, and are disposed in a vehicle front-rear direction, and lower vehicle front-rear direction ribs which project downward from the upper surface, extend substantially in the vehicle front-rear direction, and disposed in the vehicle width direction. | 01-30-2014 |
20140252802 | Pedestrian-Friendly Structure for Motor Vehicle Front End - A pedestrian-friendly forward structure of a motor vehicle includes a grill opening reinforcement (GOR), a front fascia located forward of and spaced from the GOR, and a support bracket extending transversely to the vehicle forward of the GOR and rearward of the front fascia. The support bracket has a transverse cross-bar and left and right legs extending rearward from a cross-bar adjacent opposite ends thereof. The legs are attached to respective outboard positions on the GOR, and the cross-bar has an upper flange underlying an upper rear panel of the front fascia. If a pedestrian strikes the forward structure, the fascia and support bracket yield rearward in an injury-reducing manner. | 09-11-2014 |
20140265445 | Compressive Sensor Packaging Techniques - A sensor assembly for a motor vehicle adapted for sensing impacts including pedestrian impacts. The sensor assembly includes first and second energy absorbing elements formed of differing materials which couple an applied force to the vehicle to a compressive force acting on a compressive sensor element. The first and second energy absorbers are combined in a manner to tune the response between the applied force and forces acting on the compressive sensor to provide desired response characteristics. The first and second energy absorbers can be configured to produce force flow paths which further aid in response tuning. Another embodiment utilizes an energy absorber having a shaped cross section which focuses and balances impact force is applied to the compressive sensor. | 09-18-2014 |
20140312653 | BONNET ARRANGEMENT - The present disclosure relates to a bonnet arrangement for a vehicle, the bonnet arrangement including a bonnet and a hinge arrangement, which is adapted to be attached to the bonnet. The hinge arrangement is arranged to permit pivotal displacement of the bonnet relative to the vehicle around a first pivot axis located in the hinge arrangement. The bonnet arrangement further includes a passive energy absorbing member positioned and arranged so as to absorb impact energy from an impact occurring at the bonnet in a region above the hinge arrangement. The energy absorbing member may be adapted to be attached to the bonnet and/or to the hinge arrangement. | 10-23-2014 |
20150048651 | PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A pedestrian protection device for a motor vehicle, includes a front flap that is connected to a body of the motor vehicle by means of at least one coupling device and at least one adjusting device, by means of which adjusting device the front flap, by way of at least one actuator, can be moved into a protective position that is raised relative to the body of the motor vehicle and can be fixed in the protective position, wherein the at least one actuator is connected to the corresponding coupling device and to the front flap by means of a coupling joint, the coupling joint including a joint head and a joint socket unit that receives the joint head, the joint socket unit having a joint socket and a retaining element that at least partially surrounds the joint socket. The joint head has a joint head end region that visibly interacts with a recess in the joint socket unit. | 02-19-2015 |
20150054305 | HOOD INNER DESIGN FOR PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION - A hood and, in particular, a hood inner panel for increasing pedestrian safety during a collision between a pedestrian and a motor vehicle. The hood inner panel includes two regions separated by an angled wall or a reinforcing structure which increases local rigidity. The rigidity of the hood inner panel in the vicinity of the angled wall is then adjusted for energy absorption by the inclusion of apertures which can increase the deformability of the hood inner panel. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054306 | VEHICLE-BODY FRONT STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A pair of right-and-left brackets which extend obliquely downward and forward from respective front portions of a pair of right-and-left side frames are provided. A stiffener which extends in a vehicle width direction below a bumper beam is attached to respective front ends of the pair of right-and-left brackets. The stiffener is configured such that its front end portion slants downward and forward and has an open cross section, and its rear end portion thereof has a closed cross section. An obstacle can be prevented from coming in below a vehicle-body front portion, and also the sufficient energy absorption in a collision and the prompt flicking-up of an obstacle can properly achieved. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054307 | VEHICLE-BODY FRONT STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A protecting member includes a pair of right-and-left brackets which extend obliquely downward and forward from front portions of a pair of right-and-left side frames and a stiffener which extends in a vehicle width direction below a bumper beam and attached to front ends of the pair of right-and-left brackets. The protecting member has a load/deformation characteristic including a first stage from a collision start, a second stage after the first stage, and a third stage after the second stage. Herein, the first stage is set so as to restrain the obstacle from coming in below a vehicle-body front portion, the second stage is set so as to absorb collision energy to restrain a local deformation of the obstacle, and the third stage is set so as to flick the obstacle up. | 02-26-2015 |
20150091328 | VEHICLE ASSEMBLY - A vehicle assembly, comprising a vehicle grille and one or more body structure components, such as fenders. The vehicle grille is displaceable relative to the body structure components, wherein in a first position of the grille, the grille provides support to at least a part of the one or more body structure components and wherein in a second position, said support is reduced. A vehicle grille and a vehicle bonnet are also disclosed. | 04-02-2015 |
20150291123 | VEHICLE HOOD - An inner panel of a vehicle hood has a 0.2% proof stress of 70 MPa or more and 120 MPa or less after assembling of the inner panel and completion of bake coating. An outer panel has a 0.2% proof stress of 150 MPa or more. The outer panel is made of JIS 5000 or 6000 series aluminum alloy plate material, and the inner panel is made of a JIS 3000 series aluminum alloy plate material. The inner panel has hat-shaped main beads arranged in a center portion. An elongation amount (L−L0)/L0 determined by cross-section line length L of a concave or convex portion of the main bead projected from the surface of the center portion and a line length L0 of a line segment linearly connecting ends of the portion is 0.4 δ to 0.6 δ to a breaking elongation δ in uniaxial tensile deformation. | 10-15-2015 |
20160031487 | VEHICLE FENDER ENERGY ABSORBING APPARATUS - An energy absorption member coupled between a vehicle front fender and a vehicle side structural member providing peak impact force resistance and energy absorption during an impact force imposed on the front fender. The energy absorption member extends continuously along the length of the front fender opposed from the side structural member to provide constant load along the entire length of the front fender. The energy absorption member may be a foamed block, a vertical, or horizontal oriented honeycomb structure or spaced hollow crush lobes. | 02-04-2016 |
20160193980 | Integrated Active Hinge Mechanism | 07-07-2016 |
20160375855 | Cantilevered Windshield Support For Pedestrian Protection - A vehicle including a vehicle frame and a cowl box assembly. The cowl box assembly has a cowl box and a cowl top panel, A cantilevered support extends from a rear edge of the cowl top panel to a lower edge of a windshield. The cantilevered support resiliently attaches to a front/lower edge of the windshield. The cowl top panel extends from a front end of the cowl box to a back end of the cowl box. The cantilevered support is attached to the back end of the cowl top panel to extend above the cowl top panel to the lower edge of the windshield that is disposed forward of the front end of the cowl box. The cantilevered support deflects to a greater extent than the cowl box if an impact force is applied to the windshield in a collision with a pedestrian. | 12-29-2016 |