Bumper for motor vehicles

US4482180A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Guntram Huber · Weil der Stadt, DE
• Wolfgang Fischer · Eppelheim, DE
• Fritz Haeberle · Sindelfingen, DE
• Horst Kleiner · Stuttgart, DE
• Daniel Riechers · Sindelfingen, DE
• Wolfgang Klie · Ditzingen, DE
• Johann Tomforde · Sindelfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 1982
• Grant date: Nov 13, 1984
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2019/1886
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle, especially an automobile, with the bumper arrangement including a bending-resistant support mounted on a part integrally secured with the motor vehicle. A front of the support accommodates a preferably replacable energy absorber composed of at least one component. The energy absorber itself is partially surrounded by a shell made of a viscoelastic material. The shell is connected to a covering part of viscoelastic material having a downwardly projecting skirt segment and an upwardly extending segment which is extended in a direction toward adjoining body portions of the motor vehicle. A front side of the support is made essentially flat and is adapted to receive a middle segment of the covering part. For attachment of the shell to the covering part locally discontinuous guide grooves are provided in an area of the upper segment and skirt segment, the guide grooves being adapted to lockingly accommodate the appropriate projections or ends of the shell.