Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deployable panel for pedestrian impact
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Application No.: US15915666Application Date: 2018-03-08
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Publication No.: US10525928B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: S. M. Iskander Farooq , Mohammad Omar Faruque , Nirmal Muralidharan , Srinivasan Sundararajan , Dean M. Jaradi
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Current Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Bejin Bieneman PLC
- Agent Frank A. MacKenzie
- Main IPC: B60R21/34
- IPC: B60R21/34 ; B60R19/40 ; B60R21/00

Abstract:
A system includes a bumper, an actuator fixed to the bumper, and a panel fixed to the actuator and moveable relative to the bumper. A first bracket is fixed to one of the bumper and the panel, and a second bracket is fixed to the other of the bumper and the panel. The second bracket is moveably engaged with the first bracket. A spring-loaded lock is fixed to the first bracket and is biased against the second bracket. The actuator may be triggered in response to a sensed pedestrian impact. In that case, the actuator moves the first and second brackets relative to each other to move the panel from a recessed position to an extended position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190275981A1 DEPLOYABLE PANEL FOR PEDESTRIAN IMPACT Public/Granted day:2019-09-12
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