Grill for a land vehicle and also a land vehicle having a grill
AssigneeAxelchoice Limited
InventorsPeter John Rackham, Michael Tate
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Abstract
The present invention provides (with reference to FIG. 1) a land vehicle having bodywork which defines an aperture (11) in which a grill (10) is secured by mounting means (20, 21, 22). The mount means (20, 21, 22) comprises an elastically deformable non-metallic material which can deform to allow the grill (10) to move relative to surrounding bodywork when the grill (10) receives an impact, thereby absorbing energy of the impact, and which can subsequently return to the original shape thereof and thereby restore the grill (10) to the pre-impact position thereof. The present invention also relates to a grill (10) compound of a composite material comprising fibres set in a matrix.
Claims16
A land vehicle having bodywork which defines an aperture in which a grill is secured by mounting means wherein the mounting means comprises an elastically deformable non-metallic material which can deform to allow the grill to move relative to surrounding bodywork when the grill receives an impact, thereby absorbing energy of the impact, and which can subsequently return to the original shape thereof and thereby restore the grill to the pre-impact position thereof, characterised in that the mourning means comprises a support substrate having slits extending therethrough rearwardly from a front surface of the substrate which abuts part of the rear surface of the grill.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.