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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
May. 29, 2008
Masanobu Fukukawa, Toyota, JP;
Yoshihiro Ogura, Toyota, JP;
Kaoru Ito, Nisshin, JP;
Kuniaki Hasegawa, Kariya, JP;
Hiroki Kurokawa, Toyota, JP;
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Takahama, JP;
Naoki Goda, Chiryu, JP;
Masanobu Fukukawa, Toyota, JP;
Yoshihiro Ogura, Toyota, JP;
Kaoru Ito, Nisshin, JP;
Kuniaki Hasegawa, Kariya, JP;
Hiroki Kurokawa, Toyota, JP;
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Takahama, JP;
Naoki Goda, Chiryu, JP;
Kojima Press Industry Co., Ltd., Toyota-Shi, JP;
Abstract
A pedestrian protection apparatus for a vehicle, including a plate member which is disposed at a front face of the vehicle, which includes front and rear portions, and which is fixed at the rear portion to the vehicle with at least a leading end part of the front portion protruded from the front face of the vehicle, the apparatus being arranged to sweep a leg portion of a pedestrian, thereby protecting the leg portion, wherein the leading end part includes at least one horizontally extending portion and a plurality of vertically extending portions each having an anterior surface substantially orthogonal to a horizontal plane, the horizontally extending portion and the vertically extending portions being formed integrally with the leading end part so as to be alternately disposed in the frontward and backward direction of the vehicle and extend in a staircase-like form.