Motor vehicle front end

US6527317B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Peter Fox · Birmingham, GB
• Hans-Peter Maier · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Peter Raim · Rodgau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 4, 2003
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R19/52
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor-vehicle front end having a front bumper and a front covering which is mounted behind it, the front covering being mounted pivotably on a load-bearing structural member and in a frontal impact being pivoted rearwards about an approximately horizontal vehicle transverse axis by being carried along by the bumper by the rearwards displacement of an associated region of the bumper, a support being provided between a rear supporting surface of the bumper and a mating surface of the front covering for the purpose of carrying along the said front covering. In order to be able to reduce the space required for the arrangement in the motor-vehicle front end without incurring losses in its functioning, the front covering is suspended in a pendulous manner on the load-bearing structural member at a distance above the bumper and in its lower region is fastened permanently to the supporting surface of the bumper by the mating surface.