Patent ID: 7575271
Filing Date: 2009-08-18
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A pedestrian protection apparatus for a vehicle, comprising 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, the apparatus being arranged to sweep a leg portion of a pedestrian that has collided with the front of the vehicle by contact of a front end of the plate member with the leg portion of the pedestrian, thereby protecting the leg portion of the pedestrian, wherein the front portion of the plate member includes a plurality of first reinforcing beads each protruding upward and extending in the frontward and backward direction of the vehicle and a plurality of second reinforcing beads each protruding downward and extending in the frontward and backward direction of the vehicle, the plurality of first reinforcing beads and the plurality of second reinforcing beads being provided integrally with the front portion so as to be alternately disposed in a width direction of the vehicle, wherein each of the plurality of first reinforcing beads is open downward and includes two side walls and an upper wall and each of the plurality of second reinforcing beads is open upward and includes two side walls and a lower wall, the side walls of first reinforcing beads being integrally connected to the corresponding side walls of adjacent second reinforcing beads, and wherein the rear portion of the plate member has a flat section extending in the frontward and backward direction of the vehicle and which is directly fixed at a rear end to the vehicle.