Patent ID: 7971903

Claim:
An automobile door bracket for a vehicle, said bracket having alternating ridges and grooves forming a corrugated section and said vehicle having a longitudinal axis extending fore-aft therein, comprising: a) an attachment section for attachment to a structure of an automobile door assembly; and b) said corrugated section having a surface area and comprising a sequence of corrugations, said door bracket being positionable in said automobile door assembly proximate to a position contacted by a vehicle occupant during an impact to the side of said vehicle; and a flange on one or more edges of said corrugated section such that said door bracket deforms at a location where impacted by said occupant during an impact to said side of said vehicle, wherein said corrugations include side walls wherein said alternating ridges and grooves including said side walls extend in a direction different from said vehicle longitudinal axis wherein said door bracket consists of plastic material, wherein said sequence of corrugations include cut-out regions and said cut-out regions comprise 0-40% of said surface area in at least one of said corrugations and said cut-out regions comprise 40-80% of said surface area in another of said corrugations.