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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2015
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;
Thorsten Gaas, Dedelstorf-Repke, DE;
Andre Leschke, Wolfsburg, DE;
Ulrich Hackenberg, Wettstetten, DE;
Ricardo Ploeger, Wolfsburg, DE;
Torsten Strutz, Wolfsburg, DE;
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;
Abstract
A pedestrian protection system for a vehicle, having at least one impact-detecting sensor and a deformable element that are arranged between a cross-member and a bumper cover of the vehicle, and a control unit that analyzes the signals of the at least one sensor. In order to reduce the amount of space required, the deformable element is designed as a deformable member that it has a cavity in which the at least one sensor is arranged and detects changes in an electromagnetic field in the cavity.