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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2016
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
S. M. Iskander Farooq, Novi, MI (US);
Nirmal Muralidharan, Birmingham, MI (US);
Srinivasan Sundararajan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Sudip Sankar Bhattacharjee, Novi, MI (US);
Mohammed Omar Faruque, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle front end includes a bumper and a carrier attached to the bumper. A plurality of fins are movably attached to the carrier and are spaced from each other. The fins taper in a direction transverse to the bumper. The fins may be moved to a deployed position to reinforce the bumper to improve low-speed damageability of the bumper, and may be moved to an inactive position, which may allow a fascia to more easily deform relative to the deployed position to provide energy absorption for pedestrian impacts.