Driver knee energy-absorbing plate

Details Driver knee energy-absorbing plate Driver knee energy-absorbing plate

1996-07-15

1997-12-16

Pape, Joseph D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Body shell

280752, B60R 21045

Patent

active

056976674

ABSTRACT:
An energy-absorbing plate for absorbing energy from the force of a knee of the driver of a motor vehicle when the driver is thrown forward in response to a frontal impact. The plate has a knee impact zone and is mounted on rigid vehicle support structure in a position placing the impact zone directly in front of the right knee of the driver. The impact zone is connected to an upper wall portion of the plate by a generally horizontal shelf placing the impact zone closer to the right knee and providing additional stiffness for better crashworthiness. The plate has a bead adjacent one side of the impact zone capable of deforming into a shallower channel shape upon impact. The impact zone has a relatively large radius side edge portion capable of rolling with the deformation of the impact zone to improve energy absorption.

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patent: 5456494 (1995-10-01), Witkovsky
patent: 5482319 (1996-01-01), Yoshimura et al.

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