Vehicle bumper assembly
AssigneeGedia Gebrueder Dingerkus GmbH
InventorMarvin Berger
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Abstract
A bumper assembly for a motor vehicle has a first bumper subassembly having a first cross bar and two first U-section crash boxes spaced apart from one another and each fastened by a respective outer end to a respective one of two regions of the cross bar close to ends thereof and each fastened by a respective inner end to the structure of the vehicle, Each crash box is of U-section with a web bridging two side walls, and each crash box further has at least at the respective outer end a transversely projecting integral tab that is folded over from the web and with which the crash box is fastened to the cross bar.
Claims10
A bumper assembly for a motor vehicle, the assembly comprising a first bumper subassembly having
- a first cross bar and
- two first crash boxes spaced apart from one another and each fastened by a respective outer end to a respective one of two regions of the cross bar close to ends thereof and each fastened by a respective inner end to the structure of the vehicle, each crash box being of U-section with a web bridging two side walls, each crash box further having at least at the respective outer end a transversely projecting integral tab that is folded over from the web and with which the crash box is fastened to the cross bar;
- and a second bumper subassembly having
- a second cross bar vertically spaced from the first cross bar, and
- two second crash boxes spaced apart from one another and each fastened by a respective outer end to a respective one of two regions of the second cross bar close to ends thereof and each fastened by a respective inner end to the structure of the vehicle the first crash boxes having a lower strength with respect to crush resistance than the second crash boxes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.