Motor vehicle

US4410212A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Gunter Sturtz · Leinfelden, DE
• Herbert Holtze · Weil der Stadt, DE
• Dietrich Rothacker
• Gerhard Burk · Magstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 1981
• Grant date: Oct 18, 1983
• Expiry date: May 18, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D25/081
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle provided with an engine space or trunk arranged in the forward end thereof and with an end wall located between the space or trunk and the passenger compartment. A brake pedal, mounted in a suspended fashion connected to a braking device located outside of the passenger compartment, extends through the end wall. The braking device is arranged so that, upon a frontal structural deformation caused by a collision, the brake device executes a pivotal motion by which the brake pedal is guided away from the driver of the vehicle and against the end wall. A two-stage deformation member is provided which includes a rigid upper pot-shaped deformation member to which the braking device is attached. A pedal shaft of the brake pedal is mounted in an upper zone of the upper pot shaped member, the upper pot shaped member passes over by way of a step or shoulder into a larger deformable lower pot-shaped member connected with the end wall. The lower pot-shaped deformation member is fashioned so that a larger deformation distance is available in an upper zone than in a lower zone thereof.