Inventors:
William C. Filbert - Wilmington DE
Robert D. Souffie - Wilmington DE
Richard M. Turner - Wallingford PA
Assignee:
E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company - Wilmington DE
International Classification:
B60R 1906
Abstract:
An energy-absorbing device suitable as an automobile bumper using sinuous (corrugated), elastomeric ribs, which can be either attached to a connecting member at one end and unattached at the other end or unattached at both ends. These ribs buckle in a direction normal to the impact force and modulate that force.