Benteler-automobiltechnik Gmbh

Benteler Automobiltechnik Gmbh & Co Kg

Andreas Wille

Christian Handing

Andreas Hitz

Christian Hielscher

Michael Wibbeke

Dariusz Straznikiewicz

Andreas Schiller

Wulf H&auml;rtel

Bjorn Schaffranek

Darius Straznikiewicz

A door impact beam for a motor vehicle includes a pot-shaped member made from a metal sheet and extending over a major part of a length of the beam to define two legs and a bridge interconnecting the legs. The bridge has a central length portion which is formed with an embossment defined by a depth, with a ratio of the depth of the embossment to a height of the pot-shaped member in midsection ranging between 1:3 and 1:6. The pot-shaped member has side flanges extending transversely from lower longitudinal edges of the legs in the central length portion.

Door impact beam

In a method of making a hybrid structure, at least one support body is fixed in a tube component which is then placed in an injection molding tool. An injection-molded part is injection-molded to an outer surface of the tube component in an area of the support body. As a result, the tube component is inwardly deformed, when regions adjacent to the support body are exposed to an injection pressure, and forms indentations for engagement of the injection-molded part.

Method of making a hybrid structure, and hybrid structure

A dashboard support for a motor vehicle, includes a support beam extending between windshield pillars of a motor vehicle body. Associated to the support beam is an active arrangement, which includes ceramic piezoelectric elements and a controller operatively connected to the piezoelectric elements, for implementing a vibration damping.

Dashboard support with vibration-damping feature

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Paderborn, Germany

Andreas Wille