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Renault S.a.s.

Compagnie Plastic Omnium

Valeo Systemes Thermiques

Bruno Ghiringhelli

Hugues Cheron

Laurent Decker

Alain Liadouze

Marc Durbize

Olivier Devilliers

A motor vehicle front end includes at least one upper crossmember ( ) capable of supporting the hinges or the catch for the vehicle bonnet, a support piece ( ) at each end of the crossmember capable of supporting at least one lighting unit ( ) of the vehicle, a lower crossmember ( ) extending from one support piece to the other and belonging to a vehicle energy-absorption system, and a cavity located between the two crossmembers and the two support pieces, leaving space for a radiator ( ) supported by structure external to the functional front end. The upper crossmember is a hybrid crossmember consisting of a metal alloy section piece reinforced with plastic ribs.

Motor vehicle functional front end, without radiator

Motor vehicle functional front end comprising at least one upper crossmember ( ) and, at each end of the upper crossmember, a support piece ( ) capable of supporting at least one lighting unit of the vehicle, characterized in that the connection between the upper crossmember and each support piece is provided by one nesting into the other, combined with a possibility of adjustment in a roughly horizontal direction perpendicular to the axis of the vehicle.

Attachment of front quadrant to crossmember

Motor vehicle functional front end referenced to the wing of a vehicle

A device allows precise positioning of a second body part relative to a first body part. The first part includes a first pair of reference surfaces, a second pair of reference surfaces not parallel to the surfaces of the first pair, and an abutting surface. The second part includes a first pair of bearing surfaces, a second pair of bearing surfaces, each pair of bearing surfaces being arranged to enable each of the surfaces to come into surface contact with a corresponding reference surface and slide along the bearing surface upon installation of the second part on the first part, and an abutting surface encountering the abutting surface of the first part when the second part is installed on the first part.

Device for precise positioning of a vehicle body part relative to

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Langres, France

Bruno Ghiringhelli