Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-11
2009-08-18
Pedder, Dennis H (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
C293S121000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07575271
ABSTRACT:
A pedestrian protection apparatus for a vehicle, includes a plate member which is disposed at a lower part of a front of the vehicle so as to extend in a frontward and backward direction of the vehicle, which includes a front portion and a rear portion; and a plurality of first reinforcing beads protruding upward and extending in the frontward and backward direction of the vehicle and a plurality of second reinforcing beads protruding downward and extending in the frontward and backward direction. The first reinforcing beads and the second reinforcing beads are provided integrally with the front portion so as to be alternately disposed in a vehicle width direction. The apparatus is arranged to sweep a leg portion that has collided with the front of the vehicle by contact of the plate member with the leg portion, thereby protecting the leg portion.
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Fukukawa Masanobu
Hasegawa Kuniaki
Kurokawa Hiroki
Noyori Keisuke
Ogura Yoshihiro
Burr & Brown
Kojima Press Industry Co. Ltd.
Pedder Dennis H
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