A shock absorbing member includes an outer member being hollow and made of a metal, and an inner member held in the outer member. The inner member includes a wood member and a bracket that is made of a solid resin or a metal and that is integral with the wood member. The inner member includes a holding structure configured to position and hold the bracket to the outer member.

A vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a vehicle bumper and a load transfer assembly. The vehicle bumper is coupled to a front end of the vehicle frame and includes a center beam and a bumper beam extension that extends laterally from an end of the center beam. The load transfer assembly includes first and second pivot pins and a load beam. The first pivot pin is fixed to the bumper beam extension and the second pivot pin is fixed to the vehicle frame. The load beam has a first end pivotably coupled to the first pivot pin and a second end pivotably coupled to the second pivot pin. The load beam is configured to load the vehicle frame in a lateral direction upon a vehicle impact event.

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.

A collision resistance performance of a structural member is effectively improved while suppressing an unnecessary increase in mass of the structural member. The structural member includes a hollow member and a tension member. The hollow member forms a closed cross-sectional shape by a top sheet portion, a pair of sidewall portions each continuous to each side of the top sheet portion in a width direction, and a bottom sheet portion arranged to face the top sheet portion. The tension member is formed by a metal sheet extending along the width direction of the top sheet portion and being thinner than the sheet thickness of the hollow member, and connects inner surfaces of the pair of sidewall portions facing each other to each other to restrain the distance between the pair of sidewall portions from increasing.

A front vehicle-body structure includes: a lower member extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and extending upward toward the rear; and an upper member extending in the vehicle front-rear direction from a rear end of the lower member. The lower member and the upper member are coupled to each other on a plurality of pairs of surfaces, and coupling portions coupling surfaces of the lower member with surfaces of the upper member are offset from each other in the vehicle front-rear direction.

A multi-tubular beam for a vehicle, such as a vehicle structure or a bumper reinforcement, includes an elongated beam formed with a metal sheet. The metal sheet has a central section and outer sections extending along a length of the metal sheet. The outer sections are disposed in opposing directions from the outer edges of the central section to provide adjacent first and second tubular portions. The central section forms a common center wall between the adjacent first and second tubular portions. A first edge portion of the metal sheet is disposed along and in parallel alignment with the center wall. The first edge portion is attached to the center wall at a first weld joint to form the first tubular portion. The first weld joint includes a weld material that extends through a thickness of the center wall and into a thickness of the first edge portion.

A bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle has a crossmember which can be coupled to the motor vehicle via crash boxes and is produced as a press-formed component of the same material and in one piece therewith, with a top-hat-shaped cross section. The crossmember is designed in a respective end region to run with an orientation obliquely downwards with respect to the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, and the end region is of ring-shaped design.

A vehicle front structure including a left and right pair of front side members, a bumper reinforcement and a power unit. The bumper reinforcement includes a first breakage initiation point at a position at one vehicle width direction side relative to a vehicle width direction center position of the vehicle, and a second breakage initiation point at a position at the other vehicle width direction side. The first breakage initiation point is a region at which bending yield strength is lower than other regions of the bumper reinforcement. The second breakage initiation point is a region with lower bending yield strength than the other regions but higher bending yield strength than the first breakage initiation point. The bumper reinforcement includes a bumper reinforcement main body with a chamber structure and a bracing member inside the bumper reinforcement main body at the vehicle width direction center position of the vehicle.

A front energy absorbing assembly for use in a front skateboard structure of an electric vehicle includes a fixed mount bracket including a platform and a connector extending downward from the platform. The front energy absorbing assembly further includes a crush tube that includes a plurality of main sidewalls. Each of the main sidewalls includes one or more apertures. The crush tube further includes a plurality of auxiliary sidewalls. Each of the auxiliary sidewalls is coupled between two main sidewalls of the plurality of main sidewalls. The connector is received within at least one of the one or more apertures. A side skateboard structure includes a frame that includes a first frame side and a second frame side. The side skateboard structure further includes one or more side energy absorbing assemblies disposed along at least one of the first frame side or the second frame side.

The teachings herein are directed to light weight bumpers and methods for manufacturing a light weight bumper. The bumper is formed from a multi-layered composite material having a core layer that includes a non-metallic filler and preferably includes a conductive non-metallic filler, such as a carbon black filler.