AUTOMOBILE HOOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automobile hood ensuring safety at head part collision of a pedestrian.

SOLUTION: The automobile hood has an engine hood outer panel constituting an outer side part of a vehicle body of an engine hood and in the automobile hood, an inner panel made of aluminum alloy is joined to an inner side of an engine room of the engine hood outer panel. A plurality of cone-like projections 2 independently provided each other and having an apex part directed to the outer panel side are formed on the inner panel 1 with a gap. These adjacent cone-like projections 2 are connected to each other by a bead 4 provided on the inner panel 3 between these cone-like projections.

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