Vehicle bumper
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTeruaki Aizawa, Tatsuya Ishizaki
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Abstract
A vehicle bumper includes: a bumper beam, a bumper face, covering a vehicle body front surface of the bumper beam, and a buffer component, provided between the bumper beam and the bumper face. The buffer component includes a platelike component configured to be folded upon collision load. The buffer component includes a folded part, and two surface parts that are connected through the folded part and are opposite to each other with a gap therebetween in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. A pressure pipe configured to be deformed by being clamped between the two surface parts so as to detect impact is provided in the gap. A lower space part that avoids interference between the bumper beam and a setting part for the pressure pipe in the buffer component is provided below the bumper beam.
Claims7
A vehicle bumper, configured to mitigate impact on a collided object when collision between the vehicle bumper and the collided object occurs, the vehicle bumper comprising:
- a bumper beam, extending along a vehicle width direction;
- a bumper face, covering a vehicle body front surface or a vehicle body rear surface that comprises the bumper beam;
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- a buffer component, provided between the bumper beam and the bumper face, wherein
- the bumper beam comprises a front surface part that becomes a collision surface, and at least one of an upper surface part connected to an upper end part of the front surface part and a lower surface part connected to a lower end part of the front surface part;
- the buffer component comprises a platelike component configured to be folded upon collision load;
- the buffer component comprises at least one folded part, and at least two surface parts that are connected through the folded part and are opposite to each other with a gap therebetween in a front-rear direction of the vehicle;
- a pressure pipe configured to be deformed by being clamped between the two surface parts so as to detect impact is provided in the gap;
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- a space part configured to avoid interference between the bumper beam and a setting part for the pressure pipe in the buffer component during collision is provided.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.