Twenty-eight-cornered strengthening member for vehicles
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorTau Tyan
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Abstract
A strengthening member and a vehicle including a strengthening member are provided. The strengthening member can have a cross section including twenty-eight corners and twenty-eight sides creating twenty internal angles and eight external angles, and at least one recessed area extending along a length of the strengthening member.
Claims32
A strengthening member, comprising:
- a cross section consisting essentially of twenty-eight corners and twenty-eight sides creating twenty internal angles and eight external angles;
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- at least one recessed area extending along a length of the strengthening member.
A strengthening member for a motor vehicle, comprising a cross section including twenty-eight corners and having twenty-eight sides arranged to create internal angles and external angles, wherein the angles alternate in a pattern comprising five consecutive internal angles and two consecutive external angles.
A vehicle comprising:
- a strengthening member comprising a cross section consisting essentially of twenty-eight corners and twenty-eight sides creating twenty internal angles and eight external angles;
- and
- at least one recessed portion extending along a length of the strengthening member.
A strengthening member, comprising:
- twenty-eight sides;
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- twenty-eight corners, wherein a cross section of the strengthening member includes four lobe portions extending from a central portion defined by four of the twenty-eight sides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.