Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Takata Corporation

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

Sotaro Narita

Hiroyuki Takahashi

Yoshinori Uozumi

Akira Suzuki

Motomi Iyoda

Tomiya Abe

Setsuo Tokoro

Takatoshi Tanabe

Takayuki Takimoto

Yukio Nakagawa

Joji Aoyama

Naoki Goda

Youichi Matsunaga

A pedestrian protection apparatus includes a collision prediction unit which predicts a collision of a vehicle with a pedestrian existing forward of the vehicle, a grille which is disposed on a front surface of the vehicle so as to be inclined while rising toward the rear and attached to the vehicle in a state where an upper end portion of the grille is forwardly advanceable, and an actuator mechanism which causes, when the collision prediction unit predicts the collision of the vehicle with the pedestrian, the grille to be moved in such a manner that the upper end portion of the grille is advanced forward by a forward advancing amount greater than that of a lower end portion of the grille.

Pedestrian protection apparatus

An object is identified by an on-board camera and a relative speed of the vehicle and the object is acquired. If the object is a two-wheel vehicle and the relative speed is lower than the vehicle speed, the relative speed is set as a collision speed. If the object is an object other than a two-wheel vehicle, the vehicle speed is set as the collision speed. Using the set collision speed, an effective mass is computed and collision determination is executed.

Collision detection device for vehicle and collision detection method for vehicle

A vehicle pop-up hood device includes: a hinge base; a first arm that has a rear end portion coupled to the hinge base, and that has a front portion disposed offset toward the vehicle width direction inner side with respect to the rear end portion; a second arm that is coupled to the front portion of the first arm so as to be capable of swinging, and that moves the hood toward a vehicle upper side; an actuator that spans between the first arm and the second arm, and that lifts the hood from a closed position to a lifted position; and a link mechanism that includes a first link and a second link. A coupling location of the hinge base to the first link is disposed further to the vehicle width direction inner side than a coupling location of the hinge base to the first arm.

Vehicle pop-up hood device

A vehicle pop-up hood device includes: a hinge base that is fixed to a vehicle body; a first arm that is pivotably connected to the hinge base; and a second arm that is fixed to a vehicle rear side end portion of a front hood and is pivotably connected to the first arm. Further, the vehicle pop-up hood device includes: an actuator that is provided between the first arm and the second arm, and that, by being operated, pivots the second arm with respect to the first arm; and a connecting portion that, at a time of completion of operation of the actuator, is set in an operating state in which the connecting portion restricts movement of the second arm with respect to the hinge base.

A vehicle pop-up hood device includes a hinge base, a first arm that is coupled to the hinge base via first pin, a second arm that is coupled to the first arm via a second pin, and an actuator that is coupled to the first arm via a first coupling shaft and coupled to the second arm via a second coupling shaft. The first coupling shaft, the second coupling shaft, and the second pin are disposed at a vehicle front side and a vehicle width direction inner side with respect to the first pin. The actuator is disposed at an incline toward the vehicle width direction inner side on progression toward the vehicle front side in vehicle plan view, and respective axial lines of the first coupling shaft, the second coupling shaft, and the second pin are orthogonal to the actuator in vehicle plan view.

In a vehicle bumper structure including a pressure tube-type pedestrian collision detection sensor according to technology disclosed herein, the vehicle bumper structure includes a bumper reinforcement, a pressure tube-type pedestrian collision detection sensor, and an upper absorber. The upper absorber includes an absorber main body, an absorber upper end portion that is integrally provided to the vehicle upper side of the absorber main body, and includes a projecting portion projecting toward the vehicle front-rear direction inner side with respect to the absorber main body at the vehicle upper side of the bumper reinforcement, and a groove portion that is formed at a vehicle front-rear direction inner side portion of the absorber main body, that is disposed adjacent to the vehicle lower side of the absorber upper end portion, that is open toward the vehicle front-rear direction inner side or the vehicle lower side, and that retains a pressure tube.

Vehicle bumper structure including a pressure tube-type pedestrian collision detection sensor

A vehicle pop-up hood device actuator includes a main body section; a cylinder that covers a portion on one axial direction side of the main body section, that is moved toward the one axial direction side of the main body section by generated gas to lift a hood of a vehicle to a lifted position, and that is configured so as to be capable of moving to a retention position; a sealing member that is formed in a ring shape and that forms a seal between the main body section and a general face; a retention member that abuts on an inner peripheral face of the cylinder and retains the cylinder at the retention position; and an enlarged diameter face that is disposed at a radial direction outer side of the main body section with respect to the sealing member at the lifted position.

Vehicle pop-up hood device actuator and vehicle pop-up hood device

A vehicle bumper including a pedestrian collision detection apparatus includes: a chamber member, a pressure detector, a collision determination unit, an absorber, and a bumper cover. The chamber member is disposed in a vehicle width direction as a longitudinal direction thereof and is adjacent to an outer side surface of a bumper reinforcement in a vehicle front-rear direction, the bumper reinforcement is disposed in the vehicle width direction as a longitudinal direction thereof and inside of the chamber member functions as a pressure chamber. The pressure detector outputs a signal corresponding to a change in pressure of the pressure chamber. The bumper cover is provided on the outside of the chamber member and the absorber in the vehicle front-rear direction and includes a projected portion projected from an opposite wall that faces the chamber member to the chamber member side.

Vehicle bumper including pedestrian collision detection apparatus

A collision detecting device and a collision detecting method are provided that enable accurate detection of a collision based on pressure change in a pressure chamber. A collision body discriminating system () is provided with: a chamber member () elongated in the vehicle width direction, having a pressure chamber () therein and provided in front of a bumper reinforcement (); an absorber () elongated in the vehicle width direction and provided in front of the bumper reinforcement (); a pressure sensor () for outputting a signal corresponding to a change in the pressure in the pressure chamber (); and an ECU () for discriminating a collision body on the basis of a signal from the pressure sensor (). The chamber member () and the absorber () are arranged in a vertical relationship with a gap (C) therebetween, and this allows the chamber member () and the absorber () to deform independently of each other when the collision body collides with the vehicle.

Collision detecting device and collision detecting method

In a hood airbag device for use in a vehicle, left and right bag-expansion openings are formed at the rear end portion of the outer hood panel in a hood width direction, and the deployment positions of corresponding left and right airbags are controlled or restrained by the bag-expansion openings, respectively. Further, the hood-center side ends (L') of the left air bag (L) and the hood-center side ends (R&#x2032;) of the right air bag (R) are adapted to press against each other when they are deployed. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress the airbags from being raised up by a wind pressure or the like and to quickly deploy the airbags over a broad extent.

Hood airbag device for use in a vehicle

Clothingmade of a cloth is put on a dummy objectthat is formed into a human-like shape and made of a material having less reflection of electric wave, in order to form a dummy doll. Then, a collision prediction test or inspection by a millimeter wave radar is performed while swaying the clothingby a blower. By swaying the clothing, the result of the measurement with the use of the millimeter wave radar same as that obtained by using an actual human can be obtained. Further, the clothingmay be swayed by vibrating the dummy dollor moving the same, instead of the sending air. A reflection plate may be incorporated into the dummy objectto change the reflection state of the reflection plate. According to these configurations, the result of the test or inspection similar to the vehicle collision prediction by the millimeter wave radar for an actual pedestrian can be obtained with the use of the dummy doll.

Dummy apparatus or test method for collision prediction apparatus or its component

An impulse sensor having: a long elastic structure formed of a material to be deformed according to an impulse; a cable insertion hole formed in the elastic structure; and a cable inserted through the cable insertion hole, the cable being operable to cause a variation in propagation energy due to its deformation. A distance from a central line of the cable to an outer surface of the elastic structure is varied in a longitudinal direction of the elastic structure.

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Sotaro Narita