Safety device for a motor vehicle including a front-end structure

US7506715B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

• Reinhard Averdiek · Sindelfingen, DE
• Dietmar Breitling · Wildberg, DE
• Ferdinand Gaiser · Simmozheim, DE
• Joachim Herre · Lörrach, DE
• Uwe Krempels · Eppelheim, DE
• Richard Krueger · Colby, US
• Bengt Larsson · Mölndal, SE
• Christoph Mueller · Bern, CH
• Michael Piesche · Nagold, DE
• Klaus Riehle · Bodelshausen, DE
• Axel Schmidt · Munich, DE
• Alfred Schnabel · Althengstett, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 21, 2004
• Grant date: Mar 24, 2009
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T7/065
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A safety device for a motor vehicle including a front-end structure, a front bulkhead, which separates the front-end structure from an interior, and a brake apparatus fixed to the front bulkhead and including a brake cylinder, the brake cylinder includes a device for pivoting the brake apparatus, which device, in the event of a vehicle crash, interacts with structural elements disposed in the front-end structure. The safety of a driver present in the motor vehicle may be increased. The device for pivoting the brake apparatus includes a fastening portion and a slide portion with a slide plane.