Fca Italy S.p.a.

Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.a.

Sergio Bianco

Gianfranco Del Nero

Daniele Ghislieri

Alessandro Bernardi

Federico Peirone

Cristian Trocino

Lorena Iezzi

Filippo Roman

A motor vehicle has an engine compartment accommodating a powertrain and at least one strut, which is substantially parallel to an advancing longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle; the motor vehicle has a safety device configured so as to move the powertrain sideways during an impact, towards the side opposite to the one concerned by the impact; the safety device is provided with a beam having a first end, distanced from an end portion of the strut towards the outside of the engine compartment, and a second end fixed to the strut in a position which is horizontally beside the powertrain; the safety device is also provided with a restraining member fixed to the strut and having a protruding portion arranged behind a wall of the beam.

Motor vehicle provided with a powertrain unit and a safety device for moving the powertrain unit sideways during an impact

A motor vehicle has two upper struts, which project forward from a passenger compartment and are arranged above two lower struts, which extend along respective substantially rectilinear axes inclined from the bottom upwards, going forward; the lower struts have respective intermediate portions with such a variation in cross section to define a preferential bending zone; the rear ends of the lower struts are fixed to a cross member connected to the upper struts by means of two connection members, which are substantially vertical and have respective breakable zones designed so as to break when a given load threshold is exceeded; the motor vehicle also has a powertrain connected to the cross member and to the upper struts by means of supports which are distinct from the connection members and are breakable in the event of a front crash.

Motor vehicle provided with a release system to uncouple a cross member in the engine compartment in the event of a front crash

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Turin, Italy

Sergio Bianco