Vehicle lower-leg protection device and method of making and using the same

US8449021B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Sabic Innovative Plastics B.V. · NL

Inventors

• Dinesh Mana · Bengaluru, IN
• Somasekhar Bobba · Bengaluru, IN
• Dhanendra Kumar Nagwanshi · Farmington Hills, US
• Matthew D. Marks · Waterford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2010
• Grant date: May 28, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/88
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In one embodiment, a thermoplastic lower-leg device, comprises: corrugations in a direction perpendicular to an impact direction; and an interior section extending in the impact direction and having an outbound portion having an outbound length D1 extending at an angle, α1, from the interior section and an inbound portion having an inbound length, D2, extending in a direction opposite the outbound portion at an angle, α2, from the interior section.