Shock absorbing device and vehicle
AssigneeNifco Inc.
InventorsYasuhiro WATANABE, Shigeki SAKAMOTO
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Abstract
A shock absorbing device according to one embodiment includes an elastic member and an attenuation device. The elastic member is compressed by a force transmitted from the exterior of a vehicle through a front grill which is a vehicle exterior component, and returns the front grill to the vehicle exterior by means of the restoration force against the compression. The attenuation device attenuates the speed of the front grill when the front grill is being returned by the restoration force of the elastic member.
Claims7
A shock absorbing device, comprising:
- an elastic member which is configured to be contracted by a force transferred from a vehicle outside through a vehicle exterior member and to return the vehicle exterior member to the vehicle outside by a restoration force against a contraction of the elastic member, and an attenuation device for attenuating a speed when the vehicle exterior device returns by the restoration force.
A vehicle comprising a plurality of the shock absorbing devices, wherein attenuation forces generated by the plurality of the shock absorbing devices are changed according to a kind of the vehicle exterior member corresponding thereto and a position relative to the vehicle exterior member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.