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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2013
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a crash box having improved robustness, wherein an angle of the pair of corner portions is set to 90° or larger and 150° or smaller, an angle of the another pair of corner portions is set to 30° or larger and 90° or smaller, one or more inwardly convex trench portions extending in a longitudinal direction are provided, a cross-sectional peripheral length of the tubular body in the one end side is shorter than a cross-sectional peripheral length of the tubular body in the other end side, an aspect ratio between the longest one and the shortest one of diagonal lines of a polygon changes depending on a position on the axial direction of the tubular body, and overall sides on the cross section in the one end are formed in parallel to the opposite sides on the cross section in the other end.