Patent ID: 7669914
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: B60J,B60R

Abstract:
1. A rear door for fitting to a motor vehicle having a rear chassis with two rear side rails and a rear insurance impact absorber system configured to prevent the rear chassis of the vehicle from deforming plastically when the rear insurance impact absorber system absorbs an insurance impact, the insurance impact being an impact of up to about 15 km/h against a stationary wall or an impact of up to about 8 km/h against a pole, wherein the rear door carries the rear insurance impact absorber system, and the absorber system comprises: a transverse element extending transversely over a distance greater than or equal to the distance between the two side rails, the transverse element being shaped to deform by bending between the two rear side rails of the vehicle in the event of an insurance impact; and two lateral absorber elements, each lateral absorber element being located in register with one of the side rails between the transverse element and one of the side rails, and each lateral absorber element being provided with a centering finger designed to co-operate with a complementary orifice formed in the corresponding side rail.