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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel E. Wilkosz, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/934 ; B60R 1/930 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/934 ; B60R 1/930 ;
Abstract
A motor vehicle structural energy absorbing member (,) is light weight and is made in a manner to produce random or directionally oriented, elongated pores or voids (,) in a structural matrix (,) in a manner that permits tailoring of impact energy absorption in one or more direction(s) to provide an integral energy absorbing region.