Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-02
2010-10-12
Patel, Kiran B. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
C293S133000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07810868
ABSTRACT:
A crashbox is provided for connecting a bumper carrier and a longitudinal beam in a frame structure of a motor vehicle. The crashbox has a section that is compressible in a longitudinal direction and a first fixing element for attachment to the longitudinal beam and a second fixing element for attachment to the bumper carrier at opposite ends of the section. The first fixing element is in the form of a spigot member that is insertible into a cavity in the longitudinal beam and a support strut extends between two rigid side flanks of the spigot member through an internal cavity of the spigot member.
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Braunbeck Bardo
Hock Theobald
GM Global Technology Operations Inc.
Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz P.C.
Patel Kiran B.
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