Device for a motor vehicle for protecting vehicle occupants when there is an impact of energy directed at a motor vehicle door due to a collision

US8061763B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US
• Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Tobias Melz · Darmstadt, DE
• Björn Seipel · Florstadt, DE
• Thorsten Koch · Schwieberdingen, DE
• Johannes Käsgen · Darmstadt, DE
• Eric Zimmerman · Kassel, DE
• Christo Gavrilov · Karlsruhe, DE
• Vlad Radu Muntean · Șomcuta Mare, RO

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 19, 2007
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2011
• Expiry date: Dec 15, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/0006
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for a motor vehicle for protecting vehicle occupants when there is an impact of energy directed laterally at a motor vehicle door due to a collision, having a connecting structure which has at least two parts with a first part permanently connected with the motor vehicle door and a second part permanently connected with an energy-absorbing region of the motor vehicle body located in the vehicle interior. Both parts via at least one common joint region can be operationally connected with each other to conducting-away of at least part of the energy input laterally acting on the motor vehicle door in the region of the motor vehicle body. The energy impact acting on the motor vehicle door is conducted away from the pivot bearing by a force acting linearly and horizontally via the first and the second part to the first end of the second part permanently connected with the motor vehicle body.