An automotive frame part is provided to a side portion of an automotive body and absorbs crashworthiness energy by bending upon receiving a crashworthiness load from a side of the automotive body. The automotive frame part includes: a member having a hat-shaped cross section or a U-shaped cross section and including a top portion, and a pair of side wall portions that are continuous from the top portion via punch shoulder R portions; and resin that is coated on or patched to an internal surface of the member having the hat-shaped cross section member or the U-shaped cross section. The resin extends at least to a predetermined range toward the top portion and the side wall portions on both sides of the punch shoulder R portions, and is adhered, after heating, to the internal surface at an adhesive strength of 10 MPa or higher at a room temperature.

A crashworthiness energy absorption part includes: a tubular member having tensile strength of 590 to 1180 MPa grade; a closed cross section space forming wall part having tensile strength lower than the tubular member and having both edge portions joined to inner surfaces of a pair of side wall portions of the tubular member, and forming a closed cross section space between the closed cross section space forming wall part and a part of a peripheral wall portion of the tubular member; and a resin configured to fill the closed cross section space, includes a rubber-modified epoxy resin and a curing agent, and has tensile breaking elongation of 80% or more, adhesive strength to the tubular member and closed cross section space forming wall part of 12 MPa or higher, and a compression nominal stress of 6 MPa or higher at a compression nominal strain of 10%.

The present disclosure describes a vehicle including an inner wheelbase panel, a first panel, a second panel and a pillar that is coupled to the wheelbase panel. The pillar includes a wall, a first flange, a second flange, and a tunnel. The wall defines an inner cavity and an outer cavity. The first flange extends outwardly from the wall and the second flange extends inwardly from the wall. The vehicle includes baffle which extends through the tunnel and is sized and shaped to seal both the inner cavity and the outer cavity.

A vehicle frame construction and method includes an elongated hollow frame member having a plurality of interior sides and a reinforcement member. The reinforcement member is formed from a thermoplastic polymer and is installed so as to be arranged within the elongated hollow frame member to reinforce each interior side of the elongated hollow frame member in a plane orthogonally oriented relative to a longitudinal axis of the elongated hollow frame member.

A system of a sealed and reinforced structural element of a motor vehicle includes: a structural element, which has a cavity with a longitudinal axis; a carrier. A first material for reinforcing the structural element, wherein the first material has a modulus of elasticity of at least 100 MPa; and a second material for sealing the structural element, wherein the second material has a modulus of elasticity of at most 20 MPa.

A component for a vehicle that can be operated with a combustible operating gas has a first component element which has or forms an at least partially open or free cavity, and a second component element which is designed as a displacement component and at least partially fills the cavity of the first component element.

In order to provide a filling apparatus which is capable of advantageously delivering a foamable material having a necessary amount into a closed cross section of a vehicle body, in an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a filling apparatus for filling a closed cross section of a vehicle body with a foamable material is provided, wherein the foamable material is a foamable two-liquid polyurethane material, wherein the filling apparatus comprises a delivering part for delivering the foamable material into the closed cross section of the vehicle body, and wherein the filling apparatus further comprises an input part into which a delivery command value and correction values to set a real delivery amount are input.

An article comprising: a carrier (12), activatable material (14) disposed on the carrier, one or more carrier extensions (16) extending from the carrier; wherein the article is adapted to provide sealing, baffling, or reinforcement within a structure's cavity.

A vehicle frame structural member assembly method includes an elongated frame member and a reinforcement member. The reinforcement member is complementarily arranged adjacent the elongated frame member.

A device for reinforcing, sealing, or damping a structural element in a motor vehicle including a carrier, having a first lateral region and a second lateral region, and a first adhesive for connecting the carrier to the structural element. The first adhesive is arranged on the first lateral region of the carrier. The second lateral region of the carrier is designed in such a way that a second adhesive, which can be pumped or extruded onto the structural element or onto the second lateral region of the carrier, is supported by the second lateral region of the carrier during and/or after its activation.