Patent ID: 8104804

Claim:
An automobile safety bumper assembly providing for enhanced energy absorption to protect a pedestrian against injury by impact of said bumper assembly, said safety bumper assembly comprising: a fascia; a bumper beam aligned with said fascia with a clearance space therebetween, said bumper beam adapted to be mounted to be fixedly anchored; one or more energy absorbers mounted in said clearance space; said one or more energy absorbers each comprising a deformable strip forming an outer loop having opposite sides respectively engaged by said fascia and said mounting beam and curved ends deformed by said fascia and bumper beam when relatively moved closer together as by an impact of said fascia with a separate body; one or more interior curved strip walls lying within said outer loop, said curved strip wall also deformed by said relative movement of said fascia and bumper beam; said one or more internal curved strip walls including a first inner loop within said outer loop and a second inner loop lying within said first inner loop and having curved ends compressed by continued relative movement of said fascia and bumper beam towards each other.