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US 9,517,742 B2Granted
Shock absorber member for vehicle, vehicle door panel assembly including shock absorber member and vehicle including door panel assembly
AssigneeFaurecia Interior Systems India PVT. Ltd.
InventorsChristophe Guiard, Vinicius Nogueira, Vineet Kedia, Rao Nuthalapati
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Abstract
A vehicle door panel shock absorber having a outer wall and first and second reinforcing wings each extending between two opposite ends which are unitary with the outer wall, the first and second reinforcing wings crossing themselves at a center inside the outer wall and being unitary with one another at this center.
Claims14
A shock absorber member for vehicle comprising:
- an outer wall having an inside surface and an outside surface, said outer wall extending on a predetermined height from a first to a second edges along a height direction,
- at least a reinforcing wing extending longitudinally between two opposite ends which are unitary with the inside surface of the outer wall, said reinforcing wing extending transversally along the height direction from a first to a second edges and having a width between said first and second edges which is inferior to the predetermined height of the outer wall at said ends of said wing,
- wherein the first edge of said wing is offset from the first edge of the outer wall at said ends of the wing in the direction of the second edge and the second edge of said wing is offset from the second end of the outer wall at said ends of the wing in the direction of the first edge, and
- wherein the width between said first and second edges increases towards the center of said wing.
1 more element
A vehicle door panel assembly including:
- a vehicle door panel,
- and at least one shock absorber member according to any one of the preceding claims, said shock absorber member being unitary with said car door panel and said height of the outer wall of said shock absorber member being substantially perpendicular to said vehicle door panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.