US Patent Issued to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK on Oct. 14 for "Crash box for a bumper arrangement of a motor vehicle, and crash management system having two crash boxes" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,262, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Crash box for a bumper arrangement of a motor vehicle, and crash management system having two crash boxes" was invented by Odd Perry Soevik (Hamar, Norway) and Bernardo Figueiredo (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a crash box (1) for a bumper arrangement (2) of a motor vehicle, having at least two closed hollow chambers (5, 6, 7) which are formed over their entire longitudinal extent from a bumper-side end (3) as far as a vehicle-side end (4) and which are in each case separated from one another by a parti...