Patent ID: 6871889

Claim:
An impact energy transmitting arrangement ( 10 ; 70 ; 140 ) for transmitting energy, which arises during impact between a vehicle ( 12 ) on which said arrangement is mounted and a foreign body, to a vehicle structure ( 14 ), said arrangement ( 10 ; 70 ; 140 ) comprising first means ( 18 ; 72 ; 142 ) displaceable in a first direction (A; B), and second means ( 20 ; 74 ; 144 ) adapted for co-operation with said first means, said first and second means being operable such that the arrangement, below a first predetermined value of a parameter representative of the energy to be transmitted, presents a first resistance-to-displacement value and, above said first predetermined value, presents a second resistance-to-displacement value, the first resistance-to-displacement value being greater than the second resistance-to-displacement value.