Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle bumper structure including a pedestrian collision detection sensor
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Application No.: US14876608Application Date: 2015-10-06
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Publication No.: US09718423B2Publication Date: 2017-08-01
- Inventor: Naoya Higashimachi , Yusuke Mase , Yasushi Nagaoka
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2014-209469 20141010
- Main IPC: B60R19/48
- IPC: B60R19/48 ; B60R21/0136 ; B60R19/02 ; B60R19/44

Abstract:
A vehicle bumper structure including: bumper reinforcement at a rear of a bumper cover; an absorber in front of the bumper reinforcement; and a pedestrian collision detection sensor including a pressure tube between the bumper reinforcement and the absorber, wherein a position of a width direction outer end of the bumper reinforcement is set between a first normal line and a second normal line, where a front-rear reference line passes through a width direction outer end of a front hood or apron upper member and extends along a front-rear direction, the first normal line passes through an intersection point between the front-rear reference line and the bumper cover and extends along the direction of a normal line with respect to the width direction outer end of the bumper reinforcement, and the second normal line is offset by 100 mm to a width direction inner side of the first normal line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160101753A1 VEHICLE BUMPER STRUCTURE INCLUDING A PEDESTRIAN COLLISION DETECTION SENSOR Public/Granted day:2016-04-14
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