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.

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 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.

A vehicle frame assembly includes, among other things, a lower main rail of a vehicle, a deflector assembly that is disposed adjacent a forward end portion of the lower main rail, and a positioning bracket of the deflector assembly. The positioning bracket is secured directly to the lower main rail and configured to separate from the lower main rail if a load that exceeds a threshold load is applied to a front of the vehicle.

Disclosed is a structural member for an automobile body includes: a hat channel member that has a top sheet portion, a pair of side wall portions extending via first corner portions, and a pair of flange portions extending via second corner portions; and a joining member that has a pair of joining portions and a top sheet facing portion, wherein a first bead extending in the longitudinal direction is formed on the top sheet facing portion, and wherein two or more second beads extending in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction are formed on the pair of side wall portions.

A vehicle bumper is provided integrally to include metal beam-extension portions on both right-and-left end sides of a metal bumper-beam portion. In this vehicle bumper, the bumper-beam portion and the beam-extension portion include a vertical wall portion, an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion, and a resin reinforcing rib is joined to inner surfaces of a void formed of each of the wall portions. In addition, in this vehicle bumper, an extension dimension of the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion of the beam-extension portion is larger than an extension dimension of the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion in the bumper-beam portion, the resin reinforcing rib in the beam-extension portion is joined to the vertical wall portion, the upper wall portion, and the lower wall portion of the beam-extension portion; and the stiffness of the bumper-beam portion is higher than the stiffness of the beam-extension portion.

An energy absorbing device is designed to increase the amount of absorbed energy and control the deformation of the device in case of an impact. The energy absorbing device consists in a hollow longitudinal member extending along a first longitudinal axis and a longitudinal guide extending along a second longitudinal axis, arranged within the longitudinal member and suitable for guiding the deformation of the longitudinal member in case of an impact. The length ratio between the longitudinal guide and the member is comprised between the values of 1/5 and 3/5.

A structural member for an automobile to be disclosed includes a press-formed product formed from one steel sheet and a reinforcing member fixed to the press-formed product. The press-formed product includes two vertical wall portions and a top plate portion linking the two vertical wall portions. The reinforcing member is a member which has an L-shaped cross section and includes a first plate-like portion and a second plate-like portion. The first plate-like portion is fixed to one of the vertical wall portions such that the second plate-like portion protrudes toward an outward direction from the vertical wall portion side along the top plate portion.

A closed cross-sectional structure member includes a hollow member, the hollow member having a collision side wall part located on a collision side, an opposed collision side wall part opposing the collision side wall part, a pair of first side wall part and second side wall part connecting with end portions of the collision side wall part and end portions of the opposed collision side wall part, a first inner wall part extending from the first side wall part to an inside of the hollow member, a second inner wall part extending from the second side wall part to the inside of the hollow member, a third inner wall part connecting with the first inner wall part and the collision side wall part, and a fourth inner wall part connecting with the second inner wall part and the collision side wall part.

A bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle, having an upper main cross member, which is able to be coupled via crash boxes to the motor vehicle, and a lower auxiliary cross member, wherein the main cross member and auxiliary cross member are coupled together via vertical struts. The main cross member and/or the auxiliary cross member and/or the vertical element are supported on the crash box and/or on a longitudinal member via at least one additional support element oriented in the direction of the motor vehicle, wherein the support element is configured in one piece and in a single material with the main cross member or the auxiliary cross member or the vertical element.