Impact energy absorbing structure
AssigneeGordon Murray Design Limited
InventorFrank Coppuck
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Abstract
An axially compressible energy absorbing member for a vehicle comprising a thin-walled tube having at least two adjacent, substantially parallel, axially-extending passageways defined by tube walls and separated where they are adjacent by a wall section, wherein the wall section includes one or more apertures of predetermined shape(s) and/or size(s), and wherein the thickness of the tube walls and of the wall section is substantially constant and the same.
Claims15
A longitudinally compressible energy absorbing member for a vehicle comprising an elongate thin-walled tube having at least two adjacent, substantially parallel, longitudinally-extending passageways defined by tube walls and separated where they are adjacent by a wall section, wherein the wall section includes one or more apertures of predetermined shape(s) and/or size(s), and wherein the thicknesses of the tube walls and of the wall section are substantially constant and the same, and wherein there are no overlapping edges.
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