Daimler Ag

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Uwe Krempels

Karl-Heinz Baumann

Alfred Schnabel

Axel Schmidt

Bengt Larsson

Maya Ziegs

Ferdinand Gaiser

Christoph Mueller

Klaus Riehle

Joachim Herre

Michael Piesche

Reinhard Averdiek

Sinisa Andrasic

Stefan Zwiener

Richard Krueger

Dietmar Breitling

Jochen Ruf

A safety device for a motor vehicle including a front-end structure, a front bulkhead, which separates the front-end structure from an interior, and a brake apparatus fixed to the front bulkhead and including a brake cylinder, the brake cylinder includes a device for pivoting the brake apparatus, which device, in the event of a vehicle crash, interacts with structural elements disposed in the front-end structure. The safety of a driver present in the motor vehicle may be increased. The device for pivoting the brake apparatus includes a fastening portion and a slide portion with a slide plane.

Safety device for a motor vehicle including a front-end structure

A supporting structure for a motor vehicle which, at a front end of a safety passenger cell, is provided with a front section with a crumple zone and two wheel housings which are arranged laterally in the region of the crumple zone and in which a respective wheel having a tire and a wheel rim, is arranged. A wheel support ramp which runs obliquely downward, as seen from the travel direction, is formed and causes the respective wheel, which has been moved toward the wheel support ramp as a consequence of a crash-induced deformation of the crumple zone, to be guided downward in the direction of the safety passenger cell. An additional wheel impact element is provided for each wheel and is deformable by the respective wheel () that has been moved as a consequence of the crash-induced deformation of the crumple zone.

Supporting structure for a motor vehicle

A bumper for a motor vehicle includes an outer bumper part and an inner bumper part. Inner bumper part includes a base part and at least one side crosspiece situated at an angle thereto. Repair costs, e.g., in response to collisions at low speeds, may be reduced. For this purpose, the region of the transition from base part to side crosspiece is designed so that when a force is applied to the bumper, the deformation of the inner bumper part takes place in a predetermined direction.

Bumper having a roll-formed ridge

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Boeblingen, Germany

Uwe Krempels