Roll-over protective system for motor vehicles with a collapsible roll bar

• US 20080217897A1
• Filed: 02/28/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Automotive Group ISE Innomotive Systems Europe GmbH (Nordwind Capital GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Automotive Group ISE Innomotive Systems Europe GmbH (Nordwind Capital GmbH)
• Inventors: Latussek, Holger
• Application Number:
  US12/072,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20080217897A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/756
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/135 automatically during an accident
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/13 Roll-over protection electrical circuits for triggering safety arrangements B60R21/01

Abstract

A roll-over protective system for motor vehicles, with roll-over bars arranged at the vehicle'"'"'s seats, each one being accommodated in a support fixed to the vehicle, and in the normal condition being held by a holding device in a lower, descended position of rest, and able to be brought into a raised, supporting position by releasing of the holding device under sensor control, wherein each roll-over bar has two legs, each of them pivoted at a spacing in the transverse axis of the vehicle with one end in bearings in the support fixed to the vehicle and able to fold down toward each other with their free end, and being interlocked in the raised condition. In order to hinder a digging in of the roll-over bar in soft ground, at least one of the two legs of the bar has a flattening in the region of the free end. In order to enable a locking of the legs of the bar in intermediate positions as well, the mutual interlocking of the two raised legs of the bar is such that a locking can be activated not only in the end position, but also in intermediate positions.

Claims

1. A roll-over protective system for motor vehicles, comprising:

roll-over bars adapted to be arranged at the vehicle'"'"'s seats, each roll-over bar being accommodated in a support adapted to be fixed to the vehicle, and in a normal condition being held by a holding device in a lower, descended position of rest, and able to be brought into a raised, supporting position by releasing of a holding device under sensor control, wherein each roll-over bar has two legs, each leg pivoted at a spacing in a transverse axis of the vehicle with one end in bearings in the support fixed to the vehicle and able to fold down toward each other with a free end, and being interlocked in the raised condition, and wherein at least one of the two legs of the bar has a flattening in the region of the free end.

3. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, with two bar legs, one of which, an outer bar leg, encloses the other bar leg, an inner bar leg, in the collapsed condition, wherein only the outer bar leg has an upper, flattened region.

4. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, with two bar legs, one of which, an outer bar leg, encloses the other bar leg, an inner bar leg, in the collapsed condition, wherein both the outer bar leg and the inner bar leg have an upper, flattened region.

5. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, wherein the flattening is in the shape of an arc.

6. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, wherein the flattening is configured as a rounding.

7. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, wherein the flattening consists of variously curved segments.

8. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, wherein the free ends of the two legs of the bar are coupled together by constraint.

9. The roll-over protective system per claim 8, wherein the free end of one bar leg is configured as a slide block and the interior of the other bar leg as a slotted link.

10. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, wherein a spring drive in the style of a spring lifting element is provided as the drive.

11. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, wherein a helical compression spring is provided as the drive.

12. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, wherein a pyrotechnical drive is provided as the drive.

14. The roll-over protective system per claim 1, wherein the toothed segment is arranged inside the outer leg of the bar and the complementary locking element at a tip of the inner leg of the bar.

2. A roll-over protective system for motor vehicles, comprising:

roll-over bars adapted to be arranged at the vehicle'"'"'s seats, each roll-over bar being accommodated in a support adapted to be fixed to the vehicle, and in a normal condition being held by a holding device in a lower, descended position of rest, and able to be brought into a raised, supporting position by releasing of a holding device under sensor control, wherein each roll-over bar has two legs, each leg pivoted at a spacing in a transverse axis of the vehicle with one end in bearings in the support fixed to the vehicle and able to fold down toward each other with a free end, and being interlocked in the raised condition, and wherein that the mutual interlocking of the two raised legs of the bar is such that a locking can be activated not only in the end position, but also in intermediate positions.

13. The roll-over protective system per claim 2, wherein a toothed segment with at least two teeth formed at a spacing in conjunction with a complementary locking element for an active engagement with the toothed segment is provided for the interlocking of the two legs of the bar.

15. The roll-over protective system per claim 2, with two bar legs, one of which, an outer bar leg, encloses the other bar leg, an inner bar leg, in the collapsed condition, wherein only the outer bar leg has an upper, flattened region.

16. The roll-over protective system per claim 2, with two bar legs, one of which, an outer bar leg, encloses the other bar leg, an inner bar leg, in the collapsed condition, wherein both the outer bar leg and the inner bar leg have an upper, flattened region.

17. The roll-over protection system per claim 2, wherein the flattening is in the shape of an arc, configured as a rounding, or consists of variously curved segments.

18. The roll-over protective system per claim 2, wherein the free ends of the two legs of the bar are coupled together by constraint.

19. The roll-over protective system per claim 2, wherein a spring drive in the style of a spring lifting element, a helical compression spring, or a pyrotechnical drive is provided as the drive.

20. The roll-over protective system per claim 2, wherein the toothed segment is arranged inside the outer leg of the bar and the complementary locking element at a tip of the inner leg of the bar.