Nissan Motor Company Limited

Takuji Kugaya

Daisuke Oiki

Nobuhiro Iwai

Kazumi Hisajima

Yasuo Yotsunaga

Shunsuke Ehara

Kunji Nagae

Hotaka Ashiya

Teruaki Aoki

Takahide Ishida

Tarou Ikeda

Masaru Tsuruta

Norimasa Mizutani

Sylvain David

Sylvan David

A bumper absorber () has a squared U-shaped cross section formed of: a vertical face () extending in a top-bottom direction and a vehicle width direction, and a top face () and a bottom face () respectively extending rearward from a top end and a bottom end of the vertical face (). The bumper absorber () is configured such that the top face () and the bottom face () thereof are supported by the bumper reinforcement () via multiple attachment members (to), and an interval between the attachment members adjacent to each other in the vehicle width direction is set to decrease from end portions () in the vehicle width direction toward a central portion () in the vehicle width direction.

Vehicle bumper

Growing community of inventors

Hadano, Japan

Takuji Kugaya