Faurecia Bloc Avant

Flex-N-Gate France

Plastic Omnium Automotive Exteriors Gmbh

Faurecia Industries

Faurecia Exteriors Gmbh

Claude Laurent

Vincent Gonin

Caroline Riviere

Sébastien Berne

Frederic Bois

Virgille Gros

Virgile Gros

Magalie Menard

Patrick Borde

Frédéric Bois

This front assembly of a motor vehicle includes a bumper skin defining an outer surface that is visible from the outside and having at least one opening formed in the outer surface. The front assembly also includes a shutter for selectively closing and releasing the opening, at least partially. The shutter includes a flexible flap having a fixed portion relative to the bumper skin and a movable portion relative to the bumper skin, wherein the movable portion is movable between a shuttering position in which the opening is shuttered by the flexible flap and a releasing position in which the opening is released.

Front or rear assembly of a motor vehicle having an opening and including a flexible shutter for sealing said opening

A rear vehicle assembly includes a body structure, a moveable tailgate, and an opening and closing device. The opening and closing device includes connecting rods fixing the tailgate to the body structure. The connecting rods are hinged at a first end to the body structure and at a second end to a lateral edge of the tailgate. One of the connecting rods includes first and second rectilinear sections and a curved section. The first and second rectilinear sections are located on respective concave and convex sides of the curved section.

Tailgate opening system having two connecting rods

This element () is of the type including a hollow elongate body () made of metal and having a closed section; and a continuous second body () made of plastics material overmolded on the metal first body (), the plastics material second body () including at least two rings () surrounding the metal first body (), the rings () being longitudinally spaced part. In any cross-section of the metal first body (), the plastics material second body () is situated entirely outside the outline of the metal first body (), and the ratio of the axial length of each ring (4) over the longitudinal distance between the rings () is less than 1. The invention is applicable to the front faces of motor vehicles.

Structural element for a motor vehicle, and a method of fabricating such an element

A motor vehicle front end subassembly includes a support surround (), an air-ducting panel () and a radiator () which are arranged one behind the other across the support surround (), and a motor fan unit () arranged facing an opening () of the panel (), the panel (), the motor fan unit () and the radiator () being supported by the support surround (). At least one of the radiator () and the motor fan unit () are supported by the support surround () separately from the panel ().

Motor vehicle front end subassembly

This element () is of the type including a hollow elongate body () made of metal and having a closed section; and a continuous second body () made of plastics material overmolded on the metal first body (), the plastics material second body () including at least two rings () surrounding the metal first body (), the rings () being longitudinally spaced part. In any cross-section of the metal first body (), the plastics material second body () is situated entirely outside the outline of the metal first body (), and the ratio of the axial length of each ring () over the longitudinal distance between the rings () is less than 1. The invention is applicable to the front faces of motor vehicles.

A structural member () has a body () with a cavity (), plastic reinforcing ribs () in the cavity (), and structure () for fixing the ribs () to the body. The fixing structure includes discrete regions (), set back from at least one outer edge () of the body (), and blocks () that are part of the same moulding as the ribs (). The blocks () envelop the outer edge () in its set-back regions ().

Growing community of inventors

Voujeaucourt, France

Claude Laurent