Patent ID: 9701275
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B60R

Claim:
1. A passive hood hinge for a vehicle comprising: a hinge bracket fixedly mounted to a body of the vehicle; a hinge arm having a front end connected to a hood and rotatable at an angle about a rear end thereof when opening or closing the hood; a lowering link pin inserted into a guide slot formed at a rear end of the hinge bracket to be lowered or raised therein; a lowering link having a middle portion hinged to the lowering link pin and a rear end hinged to the rear end of the hinge arm; a transfer link having a front end hinged to a front end of the hinge bracket and a rear end hinged to the rear end of the hinge arm; and a lowering link pin locking means mounted around the guide slot of the hinge bracket, wherein the lowering link pin locking means restricts the lowering link pin to be located in an upper region of the guide slot during ordinary operations of the hood, and allows the lowering link pin to be lowered toward a lower region of the guide slot when a hood panel is deformed by a collision.