Abstract
With the increasing demands on traffic safety, car manufacturers concentrates besides safety of the crew during a collision with another vehicle also on minimization of injuries of the pedestrians during accidents in urban traffic. Conducted studies show, that the construction of the bonnet has a large influence on the resulting injury. One of the possibilities of the active pedestrian protection is to increase the space between the bonnet and the rigid parts of the engine compartment in the event of a collision with a vehicle. The resulting space allows a greater deformation of the bonnet and thereby absorption of a greater part of the energy. This paper deals with the design of the active bonnet hinge including hinge kinematics and appropriate dimensioning of the individual parts of the hinge.
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The work was supported by European Regional Development Fund in the framework of the research project NETME Centre under the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation. Reg. Nr. CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0002, id code: ED0002/01/01, project name: NETME Centre—New Technologies for Mechanical Engineering and project of specific research FSI-S-11-30/1454.
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Galda, M., Brandejs, J. (2014). Active Bonnet Hinge. In: Å evĉik, L., LepÅ¡Ãk, P., Petrů, M., MaÅ¡Ãn, I., Martonka, R. (eds) Modern Methods of Construction Design. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05203-8_5
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