Patent ID: 6550850
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: B60R,F16F

Abstract:
Device for absorbing energy during impact, comprisinga first base plate and a second base plate which face one another and which are in contact with one another, and a plurality of first hollow impact-absorbing elements and second hollow impact-absorbing elements, the first impact-absorbing elements having a first side surface between an end base and a first base, each first impact-absorbing absorbing element rising from the first base plate, the second impact-absorbing elements having a second side surface between a second end base and a second base, each second impact-absorbing element rising from the second base plate, the first impact-absorbing elements rise from the first base plate in a first direction the second impact-absorbing elements rise from the second base plate in a second direction, the first direction is opposite to the second direction, the first base of at least one of the first impact-absorbing elements has a first length along a first elongated axis and has a first width transverse thereto, said first impact-absorbing element is substantially coaxial with a corresponding second absorbing element, said corresponding element has a second length along a elongated second axis and has a second width transversal thereto, the first length of the first impact-absorbing element is substantially equal to the second length of the corresponding second impact-absorbing element and the first elongated axis is angularly offset relative to the second elongated axis.