Bumper arrangement with end extension
AssigneeBenteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
InventorsHavard Sorlie, Odd Perry Sovik
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Abstract
A bumper arrangement, is coupled to a motor vehicle via crash boxes, having a main crossmember and an auxiliary crossmember which is below the main crossmember in the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, wherein the main crossmember and the auxiliary crossmember are connected to one another in their end region, wherein a connecting part is in the form of an extruded profile which in lengthwise portions extends with an orientation in the transverse direction Y of the motor vehicle as extension of the main crossmember and/or the auxiliary crossmember and in lengthwise portions is oriented in the vertical direction Z of the motor vehicle by way of a bending operation.
Claims17
A bumper arrangement, which is coupled to a motor vehicle via crash boxes, the bumper arrangement comprising:
- a main crossmember;
- and
- an auxiliary crossmember which is above or below the main crossmember in a vertical direction of the motor vehicle, wherein
- each of the main crossmember and the auxiliary crossmember has corresponding end regions, the main crossmember and the auxiliary crossmember are connected to one another via the corresponding end regions, and
- a connecting part is configured as an extruded profile which in lengthwise portions extends with an orientation in a transverse direction of the motor vehicle as an extension of at least one of the main crossmember or the auxiliary crossmember, and in the lengthwise portions is oriented in a vertical direction of the motor vehicle via at least one bend in the connecting part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.