Active hood device for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorIn Hwang
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Abstract
An active hood device for a vehicle may include a hood panel which is provided in the front of a vehicle body to cover an engine room, and rotatably mounted by a hood hinge coupled to a rear end of the hood panel, a hinge actuator which has a first side connected to the hood hinge, and a second side coupled to a bracket coupled to the vehicle body, and has a rod movable, and an operating unit which connects the bracket and the hood hinge, and allows the rod to be moved when the rod is raised, wherein at a time of a vehicle-pedestrian collision accident, the hood actuator is operated by a signal from a detecting sensor installed at a front portion of the vehicle, to raise the rod, and the rod allows the hood panel to pop up while being raised by the operating unit.
Claims5
An active hood device for a vehicle, comprising:
- a hood panel which is provided in the front of a vehicle body to cover an engine room of the vehicle, and rotatably mounted by a hood hinge coupled to a rear end of the hood panel;
- a hinge actuator which has a first side connected to the hood hinge, and a second side coupled to a bracket coupled to the vehicle body, and has a rod that is movable upward and downward;
- a circular arc-shaped slot formed in the bracket;
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- an operating unit which connects the circular arc-shaped slot of the bracket and the hood hinge, and allows the rod of the hinge actuator to be moved upward and rearward when the rod is raised,
- wherein at a time of a vehicle-pedestrian collision accident, the hood actuator is operated by a signal from a detecting sensor installed at a front portion of the vehicle, to raise the rod, and the rod allows the hood panel to pop up upward and rearward while being raised upward and rearward by the operating unit moving along the circular arc-shaped slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.