Vehicle door impact absorption apparatus

Details Vehicle door impact absorption apparatus Vehicle door impact absorption apparatus

1996-12-10

1998-09-01

Pape, Joseph D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Door or window with specified vehicle feature

296188, 49503, B60J 504

Patent

active

058000070

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a vehicle door impact absorption apparatus by which side impacts can be restricted during side impact intrusions to thereby provide increased protection for the vehicle occupants, the apparatus comprising two hollow supporting bars for inherently being disposed with a coil spring at an interior of a center pillar and for being resiliently inserted to thereby be fixed by a stopper protruded outside of a center pillar outer panel in order to reinforce a bracket facing a center pillar out of brackets which couple both tip ends of a door impact beam lengthwise disposed within front/rear doors to left/right tip end portions of an inner panel.

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patent: 5137325 (1992-08-01), Ohya
patent: 5470125 (1995-11-01), Yamazaki
patent: 5518290 (1996-05-01), Reinhard et al.
patent: 5599057 (1997-02-01), Hirahara et al.

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