Patent ID: 8622446
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A bumper for a motor vehicle, comprising: a crossbeam having a hat profile defined by a bottom wall, legs respectively adjoining the bottom wall, and flanges respectively extending from the legs, said hat profile having sections of varying cross sectional configuration in a longitudinal direction; and a face plate closing the hat profile of the crossbeam to define a hollow space, with the crossbeam being mountable with the face plate such as to point outwards, wherein an upper one of the legs has a width which is greater than a width of a lower one of the legs in a center section of the crossbeam, wherein the crossbeam has curved ends oriented in a direction of the motor vehicle, and transitions extending from opposite sides of the center section in a direction of the ends wherein the face plate includes in the center section a stiffening embossment, said stiffening embossment being oriented into the hollow space defined by the hat profile and the face plate wherein the bottom wall is formed in the center section with an embossment which is oriented towards the motor vehicle, said embossment extending to the transitions and having a tapered configuration in the transitions, wherein the center section of the crossbeam has in X-direction of the motor vehicle a substantially constant second width between the face plate and the embossment, and wherein the center section of the crossbeam has in X-direction of the motor vehicle a substantially constant first width between the face plate and the bottom wall, said first width being sized 0.6 to 0.7 times the second width.