A subframe assembly for a vehicle utilizing straight, parallel extruded longitudinal siderail members. This subframe assembly provides front-end (or rear-end) crash energy absorbance by plastically deforming, crumpling, and bending down to avoid the stackup and occupant cabin intrusion of components, such as the attached engine/motor, engine/motor mounts, steering components, and suspension components. The laterally disposed longitudinal siderail members each provide a straight, substantially uninterrupted lower load path to transfer crash energy from the lower load path crash management system beam and crashboxes or the like to a rear upper load path body in white bracket, and ultimately to the battery frame in the event of a crash, with the siderail members and crashboxes optionally being longitudinally coaxially aligned.

A vehicle rear-side structure is configured to ease an impact applied onto a battery pack of a vehicle upon an occurrence of a collision. The vehicle rear-side structure includes side frames and a rear-end-collision impact reducer. The side frames extend in a front-rear direction of the vehicle and are disposed at positions at which the side frames sandwich the battery pack therebetween in a widthwise direction of the vehicle. The rear-end-collision impact reducer is disposed between and above the side frames at a rear side of the battery pack. The rear-end-collision impact reducer is configured to allow air, which is to be sent to a battery stack included in the battery pack, to flow through the rear-end-collision impact reducer.

A grille assembly for a vehicle is disclosed and includes a forward frame portion, an aft frame portion, and a plurality of spring portions coupling the forward frame portion to the aft frame portion such that the forward frame is movable relative to the aft frame portion. A front end assembly for a vehicle is also disclosed that includes a bolster assembly and an active grille shutter system supported relative to the bolster assembly. The disclosed active grille shutter system includes a plurality of spring portions coupling forward and aft frame portions such that the forward frame is movable relative to the aft frame. Vanes are supported by at least one of the forward and aft frame portions and are rotatable for controlling airflow.

A vehicle body structure includes: a supported frame disposed frontward or rearward of a vehicle cabin along a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; a support frame disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the vehicle cabin along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and configured to support an end portion of the supported frame closer to the vehicle cabin; a stiffener disposed in the support frame along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and configured to form a closed cross-section with the support frame; and a bulkhead disposed in the support frame, adjacent to a portion of the stiffener closer to the supported frame, and facing the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. An upper edge portion of the bulkhead is integrally formed as a single piece with an end portion of the stiffener closer to the supported frame.

A vehicle body structure includes an engine cradle and an impact receiving structure. A forward end of the first side portion and a first lateral end of a front portion of the engine cradle are fixedly attached to one another. The first side portion has a rearward section and a forward section, the rearward section being horizontally oriented and the forward section extending upward and forward from the rearward section defining an acute angle therebetween, the acute angle being between 30 and 35 degrees. The impact receiving structure is installed to the first side portion of the engine cradle proximate an intersection between the first side portion and the front member. A lower surface of the impact receiving structure extends downward along the forward section of the first side portion further defining the acute angle of the forward section of the first side portion of the engine cradle.

The invention relates to a vehicle, comprising a chassis extending between the rear end and the front end of the vehicle, the chassis comprising two frame members having their main directions of extension along the longitudinal direction and being located on a respective side of a longitudinal geometrical centre axis of the chassis. Resilient elements, such as bushings, are provided on the chassis. A collision protection structure is located between said two frame members and is configured to absorb energy by becoming deformed when the chassis is subjected to a rearwardly directed impact force which is greater than a threshold force, wherein the collision protection structure is suspended from the chassis by said resilient elements so as to act as a mass damper under normal operating conditions.

An embodiment engagement structure includes an engagement bracket including an upper end configured to be engaged with a side member of a vehicle and connected to a region in which the side member is to be engaged with a sub-frame, wherein the engagement bracket comprises an inclined portion inclined downward toward a rear side of the vehicle.

A vehicle energy absorbing system for a high-speed, small-overlap impact, comprising: lobes (12) spaced intermittently along a vehicle rail (1), wherein the lobes (12) include an impact arm (14), a reactionary arm (16), and a base (22), wherein a shape of the base (22) is complimentary to a shape of the vehicle rail (1) and wherein the impact arm (14) and the reactionary arm (16) protrude outwardly from the base (22) and the vehicle rail (1), wherein a channel (20) is formed in the space between the base (22), the impact arm (14), and the reactionary arm (16), wherein the channel (20) extends through the lobe (12) from end to end.

The invention relates to an axle support for a multi-track motor vehicle, having a first side member, a second side member, and at least one cross member connecting the first side member and the second side member to one another, wherein at least one control arm is articulated at bearing points of the first side member and of the second side member to connect a wheel carrier for a wheel of the motor vehicle. In doing so, a provision is that each of the bearing points is arranged in a bearing connection area of the corresponding side member, in which the side member has less stiffness perpendicular to its longitudinal extension than away from the bearing connection area.

A fastening arrangement for a passenger motor vehicle includes an integral support fastened to longitudinal supports of a body of the passenger motor vehicle that are distanced from each other in a transverse direction of the passenger motor vehicle and are disposed above the integral support. An electrical energy store is disposed behind the integral support in a longitudinal direction of the passenger motor vehicle. The integral support has a step on an end that faces the electrical energy store where an upper support surface and a lower support surface are formed by the step. The upper support surface is disposed opposite a crossmember of the body in the longitudinal direction of the passenger motor vehicle and the lower support surface is disposed opposite a support element of the electrical energy store in the longitudinal direction of the passenger motor vehicle.