A hood assembly for a vehicle includes an inner hood, an outer hood, and a deployable device. The outer hood is fixed relative to the inner hood and defines a gap between the inner hood and the outer hood. The deployable device is disposed in the gap. The deployable device defines an inflation chamber and is formed of thermoplastic elastomer. Upon detection of impact between the vehicle and a pedestrian, the deployable device is deployed to separate the outer hood and the inner hood. As such, during impact of the pedestrian with the outer hood, the outer hood may deform and/or the outer hood may space the pedestrian from relatively hard components under the hood assembly.
VEHICLE HOOD ASSEMBLY WITH DEPLOYABLE PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION
2017-08-17
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR |
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