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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2011
Hiroshi Oyama, Isehara, JP;
Junichi Shimada, Ebina, JP;
Mikito Sawaki, Yokohama, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle collision protection apparatus includes a bracket. The bracket includes a deflecting force generating component provided at a rear end of the bracket. The bracket is disposed in a vehicle front space of a vehicle and extends in a front to rear direction of the vehicle and attach a vehicle component to a body of the vehicle. The deflecting force generating component deflects the rear end of the bracket in a width direction of the vehicle and rotates the bracket together with the vehicle component in the width direction when the deflecting force generating component impinges against a portion of the vehicle body as the rear end of the bracket is displaced in a rearward direction of the vehicle due to crushing of a front end of the vehicle during a collision at the front end of the vehicle.