A load distribution device for a vehicle configured to distribute loads in the event of a collision involving the vehicle, the load distribution device comprises: an upper beam extending in a transversal direction and connectable to at least one upper load path of the vehicle; a lower beam extending in the transversal direction and arrangeable at at least one lower load path of the vehicle; and an interconnecting portion connecting the upper beam and the lower beam, wherein the upper beam, the lower beam, and the interconnecting portion are made in a single piece.

The present invention is about a bumper beam comprising: —a first end portion and a second end portion, —a center beam contiguous with and oriented between the first end portion and the second end portion, wherein the center beam comprises a front face and a back face; wherein the center beam has a center section and end sections at opposite ends of the center section, the end sections being adjacent to the end portions, respectively, wherein the center beam comprises horizontal and vertical ribs extending from the front face and the back face and/or between the front face and the back face, wherein the bumper beam is made of a plastic material.

An automatic feeding system includes an autonomously moveable feeding device for feeding animals. The feeding device includes a feed container for accommodating feed, a feed dispensing device for dispensing feed from the teed container, and a safety device suitable for halting the autonomously moveable feeding device in case of collision with an obstacle. The safety device includes a bumper for establishing a first contact with such an obstacle. The bumper defines an outer safety contour of the autonomously moveable feeding device. The safety device further includes a partition opener configured to open a partition provided in a door opening for enabling the autonomously moveable feeding device to pass through the door opening. The door opening provided with partition may be provided in a barn for housing animals. The opening device is provided separately and independently from and is not directly, connected to the safety device. In this way, the partition opener acts independently from and does not affect the safety device.

A front vehicle-body structure comprises a crash can fixed to a front end of a front frame. The crash can comprises an upper face portion, a lower face portion, a pair of side face portions, corner portions respectively positioned between the side face portion and the upper face portion and between the side face portion and the lower face portion, a first fragile portion provided at each of the corner portions, and a second fragile portion provided at each of the side face portions. The first fragile portion is configured to be deformed before the second fragile portion when a collision load applied toward a vehicle rearward side is inputted to an extension portion of a bumper beam. The second fragile portion is configured to be deformed before the front frame when the collision load applied toward the vehicle rearward side is inputted to the extension portion.

A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which is formed from a core material. The component body has a localized deformation zone which extends flat in the core material, and the deformation zone has a locally variable tensile strength according to a predetermined tensile strength profile configured to influence a deformation profile of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.

Apparatus and methods for additively manufactured structures with augmented energy absorption properties are presented herein. Three dimensional (3D) additive manufacturing structures may be constructed with spatially dependent features to create crash components. When used in the construction of a transport vehicle, the crash components with spatially dependent additively manufactured features may enhance and augment crash energy absorption. This in turn absorbs and re-distributes more crash energy away from the vehicle's occupant(s), thereby improving the occupants' safety.

Disclosed is a device for distributing crash energy within a vehicle. The device includes a member insertable into an end of a bumper beam of a vehicle, where a first portion of the inserted member occupies an unsupported end of the bumper beam. A second portion of the inserted member is fixedly attached to the bumper beam and to a left frame rail or a right frame rail of the vehicle, and a third portion of the inserted member occupies a portion of the bumper beam between the left frame rail and the right frame rail.

This injection molded article has a body part and a movable part. The body part has a first stopper part and a second stopper part, while the movable part has a movable body and a first rib and a second rib that are formed to protrude at both widthwise end parts of the movable body. A first groove and a second groove that extend in the depth direction perpendicular to the axial direction of a hinge part, are respectively formed between the movable body and the first rib and between the movable body and the second rib.

A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which extends longitudinally in a longitudinal direction, wherein the component body has deformation zones which are spatially distributed in the longitudinal direction and are formed in the component body of sheet metal material. At least two locally distributed and spaced-apart deformation zones have different tensile strengths configured to influence a deformation course of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.

Disclosed is a magnetorheological fluid automobile bumper, and belongs to the field of automobile bumpers. The magnetorheological fluid automobile bumper comprises a rear bumper body, wherein two front bumper bodies are symmetrically hinged to the front side of the rear bumper body, the ends, close to each other, of the two front bumper bodies are in butt joint with each other, a connecting rod is jointly installed between the front bumper body and the rear bumper body, one end of the connecting rod is hinged to the front bumper body, and the other end of the connecting rod is slidably installed with the rear bumper body; and a plurality of magnetorheological fluid buffers are installed on the rear side of the rear bumper body.