Patent · US Expired

Side impact beam for a passenger vehicle

US5887938A · kind A · utility

29Cited by

4References

7Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Benteler Aktiengesellschaft · US

Inventors

Dieter Topker · Paderborn, DE
Werner Bohmer · Willebadessen, DE
Ludger Gehringhoff · Paderborn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 7, 1997
Grant date	Mar 30, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 7, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60J5/0444
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A side impact beam for a passenger vehicle, particularly for a vehicle door, includes a hat-shaped profiled section which is open toward the external panelling of the passenger vehicle and has at least one web facing away from the external panelling, two legs connected to the web and directed toward the external panelling and two flanges connected to the ends of the legs and facing away from each other, wherein, starting from the transverse plane in the middle of the beam, the height of the profiled section decreases continuously toward the ends of the beam provided with increased width flanges serving for securing the beam to the vehicle chassis. The height of the profiled section may decrease in accordance with a uniform or non-uniform curve pattern.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.