Vehicle-hood assembly including an energy absorber
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsS. M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a windshield and a vehicle hood. The vehicle includes an energy absorber fixed to the vehicle hood. The energy absorber is releasable from a compressed position to an uncompressed position. The energy absorber is spaced from the windshield in the compressed position and abuts the windshield in the uncompressed position. The energy absorber includes a chamber that is sealed and vacuum pressurized in the compressed position. The vehicle includes an actuator configured to unseal the chamber to release the energy absorber from the compressed position to the uncompressed position.
Claims19
A vehicle comprising:
- a windshield;
- a vehicle hood;
- an energy absorber fixed to the vehicle hood, the energy absorber being releasable from a compressed position to an uncompressed position, the energy absorber being spaced from the windshield in the compressed position and abutting the windshield in the uncompressed position;
- the energy absorber including a chamber that is sealed and vacuum pressurized in the compressed position;
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- an actuator configured to unseal the chamber to release the energy absorber from the compressed position to the uncompressed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.