Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Mohammed N Shaik

Yunjun Li

Terry A Swartzell

Bhushan W Dandekar

Warren J Parsons

Len V Peschansky

Bradley Leier

Michael L Stockard

Young Doe

Krishnarao V Yalamanchili

Jayavardhan Tallapragada

Mohamed Darsot

Bradley W Enyeart

Ron J Taulbee

A frame for a vehicle includes a bumper support frame member, and a longitudinal frame member coupled to the bumper support frame member. The longitudinal frame member includes a rail member having an asymmetric crash response.

Energy attenuating longitudinal frame member for a vehicle including asymmetric crash response

A vehicle includes a body structure and a frame rail assembly. The frame rail assembly extends forward from the bulkhead along a longitudinal centerline. The frame rail assembly includes a frame rail defining a rail axis and a reinforcing member. The frame rail defines a longitudinally extending seam and the frame rail extends forward from the bulkhead along the longitudinal centerline. The frame rail further defines an end portion. The reinforcing member is secured to the frame rail at the end portion to increase a stiffness of the frame rail at the end portion. The reinforcing member is configured to limit a stress at the seam, transverse to the rail axis, resulting from a load applied to the end portion of the frame rail and laterally offset from the longitudinal centerline.

Automotive frame rail reinforcing member to manage an offset, frontal applied load

A cradle for mounting an engine in a vehicle has left and right side members, and a rear cross member and front cross member extending between the left and right side members. The cradle has left and right front body mounts. Left and right deflector devices are mounted respectively on the cradle adjacent the left and right body mounts and forwardly of the vehicle wheels. Each of the left and right deflector devices including an impact receiving member that projects outwardly and rearwardly from the cradle to receive an impact load offset outboard from the body mounts. Each impact receiving member has an upper and lower sheet metal shell providing a top wall welded to a top wall of the cradle and a bottom wall welded to the bottom wall of the cradle, and a front impact receiving wall extending vertically between the top wall and the bottom wall.

Engine cradle with deflector device

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Mohammed N Shaik