Bumper

US6299226A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Benteler Aktiengesellschaft · US

Inventors

• Achim Kröning · Paderborn, DE
• Hui Wang · Ann Arbor, US
• Peter Goer · Paderborn, DE
• Dariusz Straznikiewiecz · Paderborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 23, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 9, 2001
• Expiry date: Sep 23, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2019/1813
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bumper for a motor vehicle has a transverse support and impact damping members connected to the transverse support, wherein the transverse support is fastened transverse to longitudinal supports of a motor vehicle frame via the impact damping members to the longitudinal supports. The transverse support is an open profiled member opening in a direction toward the impact damping members and has an upper shell and a lower shell. The transverse support has a front stay with an upper longitudinal edge and a lower longitudinal edge, wherein each one of the upper and the lower longitudinal edges has a leg extending toward the impact damping members. Each leg has a vertical portion and an angled reinforcement flange pointing toward the vehicle frame. Each leg is slanted inwardly between 5 degrees and 45 degrees from the longitudinal edges to the vertical portions.