Patent ID: 8141671

Claim:
A hood lift-up apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: the hood lift-up apparatus being arranged under a hood panel of a vehicle at a rear end of the hood panel; an actuator including a cylinder fixed to a body member of the vehicle, an axial direction of the cylinder being in line with a vertical direction; a piston rod arranged within the cylinder and adapted to project upwardly from the cylinder, the piston rod being plastically deformable; and when a pedestrian-shaped object collides with a front end of the vehicle and the pedestrian-shaped object contacts the hood panel; the piston projects upwardly from the cylinder, an upper end of the piston contacts a lower face of the rear end of the hood panel and moves the rear end of the hood panel upward, and the upper end of the piston rod plastically deforms in a rearward direction relative to the vehicle; an attaching bracket including a holding portion holding the cylinder and an attaching portion securing the cylinder to the vehicle, the attaching portion of the attaching bracket extending from the holding portion toward a front of the vehicle and being fixed to the body member only at a portion of the attaching portion that is located on a front side of the cylinder relative to the vehicle, the holding portion of the attaching bracket including a bent portion arranged on the front side of the cylinder and extending substantially over a half periphery of the cylinder and supporting a front face side and a rear face side of the cylinder by fixedly attaching an inner peripheral face of the attaching bracket to an outer peripheral face of the cylinder.