Patent ID: 7794006

Claim:
A bumper beam for a vehicle, characterised in that the beam has a hat profile with a central flange ( 11 ), two webs ( 12 , 13 ), and side flanges ( 14 , 15 ), the beam has fastening portions ( 20 , 21 ) at its sides where the side flanges form fastening areas ( 30 - 33 ) for fastening the beam to the vehicle with the central flange facing outwards, the profile height of the beam continuously decreases in a bow-form from the fastening portions towards the center so that the profile height is less than two thirds of the highest profile height at the fastening portions, and the width of the beam increases continuously from the fastening portions to the central flange so that the central flange is wider at its center than at its fastening portions and has a stiffener in the form of an elongate depression ( 16 ) that extends from the center of the beam towards the fastening positions.