Patent ID: 6913300

Claim:
A bumper structure for a motor vehicle, comprising: a bumper reinforcement to extend in a lateral direction of a vehicular body when attached to the vehicular body, said bumper reinforcement having a front surface portion; a bumper fascia located in front of and extending along said bumper reinforcement; and an impact absorber between said bumper reinforcement and said bumper fascia, said impact absorber having a rear surface portion facing said front surface portion of said bumper reinforcement and being deformable in a longitudinal direction of the vehicular body, when said bumper reinforcement is attached to the vehicular body, so as to absorb impact energy, wherein said impact absorber is (i) longer at a lower side of said impact absorber than at an upper side of said impact absorber such that at said lower side said rear surface portion of said impact absorber projects rearwardly relative to said rear surface portion at said upper side, and (ii) stronger at said lower side than at said upper side.