Vehicular pop-up hood device
AssigneeTakata Corporation
InventorsKazuhiro Abe, Atsushi Noguchi, Koji Inuzuka, Takayuki Kawano
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Abstract
According to the present invention, a vehicular pop-up hood device includes a cylinder, a piston rod that can protrude from a front end of the cylinder, a gas generator to urge the piston rod, the gas generator provided at a side of a rear end of the cylinder, and a bracket to attach the cylinder to a vehicle body. The bracket includes a top portion engaged with the front end of the cylinder, and an overhanging portion for attachment to the vehicle body, the overhanging portion overhanging from the cylinder in a direction intersecting with an axial direction of the cylinder.
Claims9
A vehicular pop-up hood device comprising:
- a cylinder;
- a piston rod that can protrude from a front end of the cylinder;
- a gas generator to urge the piston rod, the gas generator provided at a side of a rear end of the cylinder;
- and a bracket to attach the cylinder to a vehicle body,
- wherein the bracket includes
- a top portion engaged with the front end of the cylinder,
- an overhanging portion for attachment to the vehicle body, the overhanging portion overhanging from the cylinder in a direction intersecting with an axial direction of the cylinder, and,
- the bracket includes a connection portion continuous to the top portion, extending along the cylinder, and connecting the overhanging portion with the top portion.
A vehicular pop-up hood device comprising:
- an actuator including a cylinder, a piston rod that can protrude from a front end of the cylinder, and a gas generator to urge the piston rod, the gas generator provided at a side of a rear end of the cylinder;
- and
- a bracket to attach the actuator to a vehicle body,
- wherein the vehicular pop-up hood device includes
- a rear-end-side cover part covering a rear end portion of the vehicular pop-up hood device and made of hot-melt synthetic resin,
- wherein a harness continuous to the gas generator is routed along an outer surface of the cylinder in a direction toward the front end of the cylinder, and
- wherein the harness is embedded in and fixed to the rear-end-side cover part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.