Passenger motor vehicle with yielding body front sections

US4359120A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Willi Schmidt · Blankenloch, DE
• Norbert Schwuchow · Sindelfingen, DE
• Gerhard Burk · Magstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 1980
• Grant date: Nov 16, 1982
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/343
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An automotive vehicle, especially a passenger motor vehicle, with front body sections yielding with respect to forces of a magnitude of a pedestrian impact acting from the front and/or from above the body sections. The body sections are constructed so as to be impact-resilient along their boundary edges. The vehicle body sections include a front hood and/or body portions surrounding the front hood, with the hood and surrounding body parts being supported on reinforcing parts of the vehicle body structure by way of permanently deformable deformation members.