Breakaway vehicle fender device
OwnerManoj Sharmainventor
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Abstract
A breakaway vehicle fender device including a fender frame having an outer fender frame portion and a frangible inner fender frame portion disposed at an overlap and joined at a welded joint. The inner fender frame portion includes a heat treated inner section and a non-heat treated circumferential outer edge. The inner fender frame portion includes a plurality of breakaway crevices disposed in a vertically oriented row. The inner fender frame portion is disposed between a vehicle door and the outer fender frame portion and is configured to bend or fracture in response to a force by a user upon the vehicle door.
Claims12
A breakaway vehicle fender device comprising:
- a fender frame having an outer fender frame portion and a frangible inner fender frame portion;
- the inner fender frame portion configured to breakaway from the outer fender frame portion upon a force by a user.
A breakaway vehicle fender device comprising:
- a vehicle having a fender frame, the fender frame having an outer fender frame portion and a frangible inner fender frame portion, each of the outer fender frame portion and the inner fender frame portion joined at a welded joint, the inner fender frame portion including an inner section and a circumferential outer edge, each of the inner fender frame portion and the outer fender frame portion composed of a mild steel, the inner section composed of a heat treated frangible mild steel, and the circumferential outer edge composed of a non-heat treated mild steel;
- wherein the welded joint is configured to be frangible;
- wherein the inner fender frame portion has a thickness of approximately twenty-five percent less than a thickness of the outer fender frame portion;
- a plurality of vertically oriented breakaway crevices aligned in a row and disposed upon the inner fender frame portion, wherein each of the breakaway crevices has a depth approximately equivalent to fifty percent of a thickness of the inner fender frame portion;
- wherein the first inner fender frame portion is configured to bend at each of the respective breakaway crevices upon a force by a user;
- wherein the inner section of the inner fender frame portion is configured to fracture upon a force by a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.