Composite suspension control arm shaft for motor vehicles

US6474708B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Benteler Aktiengesellschaft · US

Inventors

• Ludger Gehringhoff · Paderborn, DE
• Wulf Härtel · Detmold, DE
• Knut Schöne · Lippstadt, DE
• Ralf Schmidt · Nuremberg, DE
• Dieter Braun · Spaichingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 17, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 5, 2002
• Expiry date: Mar 17, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2019/1873
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bumper arrangement for a front end or a rear end of an automobile having a bumper cover enclosing the bumper arrangement has a transverse support having a first and a second end. First and second spacer consoles are connected to the first and second ends of the transverse support, respectively. First and second stop plates are connected to the first and second spacer consoles opposite the transverse support. The first and second stop plates secure the bumper arrangement to longitudinal support beams of the car body extending in the longitudinal direction of the automobile. A transverse beam is positioned below the transverse support in a mounted position of the bumper arrangement. Spacer stays connect the transverse beam to the stop plates and are positioned below the spacer consoles. The transverse support and/or the spacer consoles, at least over portions thereof, have two or more deformation areas arranged next to one another in the longitudinal direction of the automobile. These deformations areas have different force levels.