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What is a Bumper Skin and why do our vehicles need them?
Pedestrian impact criteria for are in conflict with criteria for other standard impacts defined for Bumpers Skins which is:
• Parking impact 4 km/h; and
• Reparability impact (or Danner) at 15 km/h.
The second criterion in particular requires the bumper to be very stiff whereas-pedestrian impact requires a Bumper Skin that is soft.
An object of the invention is to propose a solution that is simple and of low cost to enable vehicles to satisfy criteria associated with pedestrian impact and also with other conventional impacts.
To achieve this object, the invention provides a combination of a vehicle front bumper skin and a bottom closure piece for the engine compartment and mounted behind the Bumper Skin relative to the main travel direction of the vehicle, and in which the closure piece includes a front transverse section member.
Thus, the section member creates a low point of contact making it possible in the event of a pedestrian impact to initiate rotation of the leg so that the vehicle can more easily satisfy the above-mentioned criteria (deceleration, shear, flexing). Furthermore, an important advantage of this solution is that it does not load the side rails of the vehicle. If a low bearing point is established for pedestrian impact purposes by using a conventional bumper beam connected to the side rails, then, in the event of a frontal impact at 56 km/h or 64 km/h, there would be a risk of the side rail twisting before absorbing the energy of the impact, which would endanger the lives of passengers in the vehicle. The invention thus makes it possible for pedestrian impact purposes to create a low bearing point that does not load the side rails, the closure plate being conventionally fixed to the engine sub-frame.
Advantageously, the combination includes a shock absorber extending behind the skin and in front of the section member and the absorber comprises a cellular material. The absorber is a bottom absorber, and the combination further includes a top beam and a top shock absorber mounted behind the skin and in front of the beam, the bottom absorber being stiffer than the top absorber against a frontal impact from the front of the vehicle.
Thus, for reasons of car styling, the top absorber and its associated portion of the skin can project generally further forward from the vehicle than the bottom absorber and its associated portion of the skin. Nevertheless, in the event of a pedestrian impact, the top absorber tends to deform more than the bottom absorber, so even if first contact with the leg takes place at the top of the bumper, genuine thrust against the leg is often rapidly transferred to the bottom of the bumper. This reconciles constraints of styling with constraints of pedestrian safety.
Advantageously, the skin is arranged in such a manner that, in profile, a portion of the skin extends in front of the section member so as to be further forward than the portion(s) of the skin which are contiguous with it.
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