PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

Japanese Patent JP2010235039

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To reduce a secondary collision impact near the rear end of an engine room while keeping traveling performance in a vehicle in which a protection area from a secondary collision is set near the rear end of the engine room.

A pedestrian protection device for a vehicle provided at a vehicle body front portion 13 includes: an engine room 3; a cowl box 9 provided at an upper portion of a dash panel 19 and extending in a vehicle width direction; and an engine hood 7 pivotally connected with the vehicle body 13 via a first hinge 59 with a focus on a rear end 7b so as to cover the upper portion of the engine room 3. An engine-hood guide mechanism 15 guides the entire engine hood 7 upward and rearward so as to cover the cowl box 9, a wiper device, and the lower portion of the front pillar when a collision of a pedestrian against a front bumper face 13b is detected or predicted, and lowers the entire engine hood 7 downwardly when a load acting on the engine hood 7 exceeds a specified load.

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NAKAURA MAKI
TANAKA KAZUHIRO
TAKAYAMA MASATOSHI
IOKA TADASHI

JP2009087448A

October 21, 2010

March 31, 2009

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MAZDA MOTOR

B60R21/01; B60R21/34; B60R21/38; B62D25/10

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Hiroshi Maeda
Hiroshi Takeuchi
Takahisa Shimada
Yuji Takeuchi
Katsumi Imae
Atsushi Fujita
Kazunari Ninomiya
Tomoo Harada
Iseki Katsumori
Seki Kei
Yasuya Sugiura

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