US Patent Issued to CONSTELLIUM SINGEN on May 27 for "Connecting element for improved crash behaviour in a car to car collision" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,856, issued on May 27, was assigned to CONSTELLIUM SINGEN GmbH (Singen, Germany).

"Connecting element for improved crash behaviour in a car to car collision" was invented by Andre Mueller (Hilzingen, Germany) and Thomas Rebstock (Hilzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crash management system (1, 1', 1") for a front part of a vehicle, oriented in a local referential, having a longitudinal direction X a transverse direction Y perpendicular to the longitudinal direction X and a vertical direction Z perpendicular to the plane defined by said directions X and Y, comprising an assembly (2, 2', 2") of bumper beams with at least...