Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.’s pop-up hood actuator has been adopted for use on the EH7 from Chinese luxury automaker Hongqi.
Pop-up hood actuators instantaneously raise the hood in cases of collision with a pedestrian, lessening the impact on the pedestrian’s head by creating a space between the hood and the rigid parts beneath it.
Toyoda Gosei recently reviewed the structure of its pop-up hood actuators and achieved greater compactness and lower costs by reducing the number of component parts by about 40 percent, without compromising the hood pop-up performance. The company has also established CAE technology related to hood lifting to better respond to Chinese automaker’s development needs.
