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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a knee bolster for a vehicle imparting no excessive load to knee parts of a front seat occupant at vehicle collision. SOLUTION: This knee bolster is provided at a position opposed to the knee parts of the front seat occupant of a vehicle. A shock absorbing member 29 moves toward the knee parts of the front seat occupant when the vehicle causes the collision, and the knee bolster absorbs shock energy from the knee parts of the front seat occupant moved forward since the knee parts abut on the shock absorbing member 29. In the knee bolster, a human body detection means for detecting the presence or absence of the existence of the human body within a prescribed detecting range in the vicinity of the shock absorbing member 29 is provided. When no existence of the human body part within the prescribed detecting range is recognized by the human body detection means at vehicle collision, the shock absorbing member 29 is moved. When the existence of the human body part within the prescribed detecting range is recognized, the shock absorbing member 29 is not moved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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