Safety Device for a Motor Vehicle
AssigneeDaimlerChrysler AG
InventorsMartin Ebner, Oliver Reinhardt
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Abstract
A safety device for a motor vehicle with a front portion and at least two headlamps spaced apart from each other is described. The vehicle includes a front hood which, in an accident, is displaced from its closed initial position into a raised safety position in which a gap is formed between the front hood and the front portion. To increase pedestrian protection, in the regions of the headlamps the safety device includes at least one covering element which is movable between a retracted position and an extended position in which the gap is closed by the covering element.
Claims20
1-10. (canceled)
A motor vehicle with a front portion, comprising:
- at least two headlamps spaced apart from each other transversally;
- a front hood displaceable in an accident from a closed initial position to a raised safety position in which a gap is formed between the front hood and the front portion;
- and
- at least one covering element movable between a retracted position and an extended position in which the gap is closed by the covering element.
A safety device for a front hood of a vehicle, comprising:
- a covering element movable between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein in the extended position the covering element closes a gap formed between a front portion of the vehicle and a front hood of the vehicle displaced in an accident condition;
- a lever arm of the covering element that attaches the covering element to the front portion of the vehicle and that opposes displacement from the extended position in the accident condition;
- and
- an actuating element that urges the covering element in the extended position in the accident condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.