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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2023
Subaru Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Keita Inamura, Tokyo, JP;
Hayato Aiuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Yohei Tsukui, Tokyo, JP;
Shiaki Higa, Tokyo, JP;
Haruhiko Nagahashi, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A contact detection apparatus includes a bumper beam, an absorber, a contact detection sensor, a tube holder, a cover, and first and second protrusions. A pressure tube is held in a groove of the tube holder. The cover is attached to a front end of the tube holder. A pressing member of the cover is disposed inside an opening groove of the groove and in front of the pressure tube. The pressure tube includes first and second protrusions on its outer periphery. The first protrusion projects in a frontward direction, faces the pressing member in frontward and backward directions, and has a pair of upper and lower surfaces inclining in respective directions to come closer to each other as the upper and lower surfaces extend in the frontward direction as seen in a vehicle width direction. The second protrusion is disposed above the first protrusion in an upward direction.