PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pedestrian protection device capable of accurately protecting a pedestrian according to a collision mode of the pedestrian moving to the front upper side or the front lower side of a vehicle as a simple configuration. SOLUTION: The pedestrian protection device S1 is mounted to the front portion FP of the vehicle V, and includes a controller 60, a forward movement holding mechanism 12 controlled in actuation by the controller, and a contact body 10 that the pedestrian can contact. The controller 60, when having predicted a collision of the pedestrian with the vehicle based on a signal from a collision predicting sensor 61, actuates the forward movement holding mechanism 12 to cause a forward movement of the contact body 10, and based on a signal from a turn sensor 63 when the forward movement holding mechanism carries out an upward rotation or a downward rotation of the forward movement holding mechanism 12 at the time of contact of the forwardly moved contact body 10 with the pedestrian, controls actuation of the restraint body 30 so as to correspond to the pedestrian MD moving to the front upper side of the vehicle and the pedestrian MD moving to the front lower side of the vehicle, respectively. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT