PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pedestrian protection device imparting a posture for reducing a degree of injury of to a pedestrian when he falls down on a road surface after a collision with a vehicle having no hood part or a type short in the vehicle longitudinal direction.

SOLUTION: This pedestrian protection device includes a pedestrian protection panel 9 rotatably mounted by making a vehicle width direction as an axis on a vehicle front surface having no hood part or the type short in the vehicle longitudinal direction, a rotation mechanism 10 for rotating the pedestrian protection panel 9 to have an angle of a prescribed angle or more with a road surface normal line of the pedestrian protection panel 9 so that the human body after the collision with the vehicle front surface may fall down on the road surface, being inclined, while leg parts are located farther from the vehicle and a head part is located closer to the vehicle, and a collision prediction sensor for predicting a collision with the pedestrian ahead of the vehicle.

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