Compagnie Plastic Omnium

Thierry Roussel

Arnold Fayt

Laurent Rocheblave

Philippe Gilotte

Stéphane Ginja

Anthony Chene

Pierre Montanvert

Stephane Malteste

Thierry Cavillon

Pascal Banry

Olivier Devilliers

Frederic Pierrot

Stéphane Malteste

Frédéric Pierrot

Riad Chaaya

David Bouguedra

Guillaume Berger

An air guide for the front surface of a motor vehicle including a channel for sealably channelling the air entering through the front of the vehicle to a cooling system when the air guide is mounted onto the vehicle, wherein the channel includes mechanical weakness areas defining programmed permanent shape-changing areas capable, along the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, of shortening the air guide when said mechanical weakness areas change shape.

Motor vehicle front surface air guide comprising mechanical weakness areas

The invention relates to an assembly comprising a vehicle bumper skin and a channel-section bumper impact absorber, the absorber being made of thermoplastic material and comprising a web and two flanges, each having a free longitudinal edge and an opposite longitudinal edge that is connected to the web, the flanges and the web defining a longitudinal channel, in which the bumper skin and absorber are connected together in such a manner that the concave side of the absorber faces towards the bumper skin.

Assembly consisting of a bumper skin and of a shock absorber

The invention provides a motor vehicle bumper comprising: The front end of the block is disposed in register with the second impact zone of the shield.

Passive safety device

The invention relates to a liner for the grille of a motor vehicle. The liner permits simple management of the desired clearance between a bumper shield and grille. The liner is intended to position the grille relative to the bumper shield while simultaneously supporting a top rim of the bumper shield.

Liner for a motor vehicle grille

The present invention relates to a motor vehicle sill moulding including a vertical undulating strip of plastics material and optionally, at least one holding plate.

Sill moulding for a motor vehicle

The invention relates to a motor vehicle beam shell designed to be placed behind a bumper skin, said shell being provided with a recess for receiving a strength member inside it, the strength member being, for example, a strength member made of metal, in particular of aluminum, or a strength member made of a composite material incorporating a metal. The beam is provided with shell cladding which interfits with the shell, thereby forming a hollow body defining a recess for receiving the strength member.

Automobile beam

The energy absorber is provided for interposing between a rigid beam and a bumper skin in order to absorb, by compression, the energy of impacts directed in a crumpling direction. The energy absorber comprises a set of ribs each of which extends parallel to the crumpling direction and each of which possesses a free edge for pressing against the beam. The set of ribs includes at least one rib arranged in the event of an impact so that its free edge remains pressed against the beam, while the rib itself buckles, and at least one other rib arranged in such a manner that in the event of an impact, its free end escapes from the beam, causing the rib to bend.

Energy absorber for interposing between a rigid beam and a bumper skin, and an energy-absorbing assembly

The invention relates to motor vehicle bumper beam. The beam comprises a longitudinal base element 1 and an additional element 2. The two elements engage one in the other and they comprise snap-fastening elements 9, 10, 11 providing a rigid mechanical connection between their longitudinal edges. The invention also provides a motor vehicle bumper having such a beam.

Motor vehicle bumper beam, and a bumper fitted with such a beam

A shock absorber for a motor vehicle, having a bumper, a bumper shield and a cross-member interconnecting two side rails of the vehicle, comprising only one layer comprising a single sheet having an undulating section defining undulating shapes each having a concavity, wherein the shock absorber is interposed between the cross-member and the bumper shield, the concavity having an axis which is substantially parallel to a direction of impact, and the shock absorber is to primarily absorb energy from an impact.

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Thierry Roussel