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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2000
Yuichi Kitagawa, Yokosuka, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
A footrest is provided to restrain a passenger's ankle from bending backward at a vehicle front collision. When a toe board,is deformed toward a passenger's room at the vehicle front collision, then a frame member,forming an energy absorbing unit,for the footrest,begins to be deformed on compression. In the member's deformation, a front-inclined leg part,F of the member,on the side of the passenger's toe yields ahead of others firstly. Thus, the compressive deformation is successively transmitted from the frame member's part on the side of the passenger's toe to the same part on the side of the passenger's heel frame member,, so that collision energy can be absorbed to moderate an impact exerted on the passenger's foot F. Additionally, since the foot F is moved obliquely upward of the toe board,by the prior deformation of the part,F, it is possible to restrain the passenger's ankle from bending backward.
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