Energy absorbing means

• US 3,232,383 A
• Filed: 03/25/1963
• Issued: 02/01/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Son Moberg Harald A
• Original Assignee: Son Moberg Harald A
• Inventors: SON MOBERG HARALD A
• Application Number:
  US04/267,520
• Time in Patent Office: 1,044 Days
• US Class Current: 188/375
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/28 incorporating energy-absorbing devices belt anchors provided with energy-absorbing means for protecting the occupants in case of physical contact therewith B60R21/055; belt retractors comprising energy-absorbing means B60R22/341, B60R22/4676

Claims

1. AN APPARATUS FOR ABSORPTION OF ENERGY FROM A MOVING LOAD COMPRISING A METAL SHEET, A FIRST ELEMENT SUPPORTING SAID METAL SHEET AND INCLUDING TWO SUBSTANTIALLY RIGID RAILS CLAMPING THE METAL SHEET BETWEEN THEM WITH AT LEAST ONE ELONGATED MARGINAL PORTION OF THE METAL SHEET FREELY PROJECTING THEREFROM, AND A SECOND ELEMENT FORMING AN OPENING PERMITTING THE RAILS TO PASS THERETHROUGH, SAID FIRST AND SECOND ELEMENTS BEING RELATIVELY MOVABLE LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID METAL SHEET BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE LOAD, SAID SECOND ELEMENT BEING ADAPTED TO BE SET AGAINST SAID ELONGATED MARGINAL PORTION OF THE METAL SHEET AT ONE END THEREOF WITH A WALL PORTION SURROUNDING SAID OPENING FOR CONTINUOUS SHEARING-OFF OF SAID ELONGATED PORTION OF THE METAL SHEET THROUGHOUT SAID PORTION AND FOR CONTINUOUS PLASTIC DEFORMATION OF SAID PORTION AT RELATIVE MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND ELEMENTS.