Deployable and smart car bumper
AssigneeOmnitek Partners LLC
InventorJahangir S. Rastegar
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Abstract
A system for protecting an automobile from a collision. The system including: a bumper having one or more bumper segments disposed on the automobile for absorbing at least some energy of the collision; and one or more actuators for deploying the bumper when conditions indicative of an impending collision is detected; wherein the one or more actuators comprise: one or more hydraulic actuators; one or more pneumatic actuators; one or more actuators actuated by one or more detonation charges; one or more fluid-filled bellows; one or more compressively pre-loaded springs; and one or more actuators connected to rotatable joints of links in a linkage.
Claims8
A system for protecting an automobile from a collision, the system comprising:
- a bumper having one or more bumper segments disposed on the automobile for absorbing at least some energy of the collision;
- and
- one or more actuators for deploying the bumper when conditions indicative of an impending collision is detected;
- wherein the one or more actuators comprise:
- one or more hydraulic actuators;
- one or more pneumatic actuators;
- one or more actuators actuated by one or more detonation charges;
- one or more fluid-filled bellows;
- one or more compressively pre-loaded springs;
- and
- one or more actuators connected to rotatable joints of links in a linkage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.