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US 10,207,666 B2Granted
Bumper for a vehicle
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsStefan Holderried, Tommy Hechtel, Fabian Fuerst
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Abstract
A bumper for a vehicle includes a bumper crossbeam and two crash boxes extending away from a back of the bumper crossbeam. A one-piece blank made of fiber-reinforced sheet material extends from a wall section of the bumper crossbeam connecting the crash boxes, right into the crash boxes.
Claims12
A bumper for a vehicle comprising:
- a bumper crossbeam;
- and
- two crash boxes protruding from a back of the bumper crossbeam, the bumper crossbeam and crash boxes formed with a one-piece blank made of fiber-reinforced sheet material, the one-piece blank extending from a wall section of the bumper crossbeam directly into the crash boxes such that the one-piece blank forms a pair of opposing vertical side walls of each crash box extending from the wall section of the bumper crossbeam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.