Patent ID: 8662546
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A vehicle bumper structure comprising: a pair of vehicle forward-directed left and right crush cans having a closed cross section and attached respectively to forward ends of left and right front side frames; a bumper beam attached to forward ends of said left and right crush cans to extend therebetween in a vehicle widthwise direction; an energy absorbing member attached to a front side of said bumper beam at least in an area excluding left and right end portions thereof in the vehicle widthwise direction, said energy absorbing member having lower stiffness than said bumper beam and said crush cans; and a bumper face disposed in front of said energy absorbing member; wherein each of said crush cans has an outside wall facing outward in the vehicle widthwise direction and an inside wall facing inward in the vehicle widthwise direction, the inside wall having higher stiffness in a vehicle longitudinal direction than the outside wall, and wherein a plurality of vertically extending unstiffening bead portions are formed only in the outside wall of each of said crush cans.