Abstract: An air guide for the front surface of a motor vehicle including a channel for sealably channelling the air entering through the front of the vehicle to a cooling system when the air guide is mounted onto the vehicle, wherein the channel includes mechanical weakness areas defining programmed permanent shape-changing areas capable, along the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, of shortening the air guide when said mechanical weakness areas change shape.

Abstract: Air guide for the front surface of a motor vehicle having a channel for sealably channelling the air entering through the front of the vehicle to a cooling system when the air guide is mounted onto the vehicle, wherein the channel includes mechanical weakness areas defining programmed permanent shape-changing areas capable, along the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, of shortening the air guide when said mechanical weakness areas change shape.

Abstract: A motor vehicle rear module for fastening on a structure of a rear door, the module has a light unit, an outer bodywork skin, this skin being adjacent at least in part to the light unit, and a shaper element arranged so as to shape the skin around the light unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a motor vehicle rear module (14) for fastening on a structure (12) of a rear door (10), the module comprising: a light unit (16); an outer bodywork skin (18), this skin being adjacent at least in part to the light unit; and a shaper element (20a, 20b) arranged so as to shape the skin (18) around the light unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shaping method of shaping a bumper skin of plastics material around at least two light units of a motor vehicle, with the help of reinforcement comprising a certain number of portions, the skin having zones for covering the various portions of the reinforcement, each portion of the reinforcement including means for fastening it to one of the light units in a predetermined position. The portions of the reinforcement are initially fastened to the corresponding zones of the bumper skin, and then the portions of the reinforcement are assembled to the light units. The present invention also provides reinforcement and a front unit for a vehicle.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly comprising a vehicle bumper skin and a channel-section bumper impact absorber, the absorber being made of thermoplastic material and comprising a web and two flanges, each having a free longitudinal edge and an opposite longitudinal edge that is connected to the web, the flanges and the web defining a longitudinal channel, in which the bumper skin and absorber are connected together in such a manner that the concave side of the absorber faces towards the bumper skin.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle part including a light unit support possessing an initial “operational” position in which the light unit is held at a given height on the vehicle. The light unit support also is configured to take up a second “depressed” configuration on being subjected to a vertical force that is substantially equal to that of an impact with the head of a pedestrian, in which second configuration the light unit is located lower down relative to the vehicle.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly comprising a vehicle bumper skin and a channel-section bumper impact absorber, the absorber being made of thermoplastic material and comprising a web and two flanges, each having a free longitudinal edge and an opposite longitudinal edge that is connected to the web, the flanges and the web defining a longitudinal channel, in which the bumper skin and absorber are connected together in such a manner that the concave side of the absorber faces towards the bumper skin.

Abstract: A bumper shield is constituted by an outer skin and an inner skin lining. The skin lining is capable on its own of carrying light units, enabling the shield to be mounted in two stages. A method of mounting such a shield.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shaping method of shaping a bumper skin of plastics material around at least two light units of a motor vehicle, with the help of reinforcement comprising a certain number of portions, the skin having zones for covering the various portions of the reinforcement, each portion of the reinforcement including means for fastening it to one of the light units in a predetermined position. The portions of the reinforcement are initially fastened to the corresponding zones of the bumper skin, and then the portions of the reinforcement are assembled to the light units. The present invention also provides reinforcement and a front unit for a vehicle.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a motor vehicle fender made of plastics material having a skin separating the inside and the outside of the fender, wherein the skin possesses a breakable zone suitable for opening when subjected to thrust from the inside towards the outside of the fender. The inside of the airbag housing is situated in register with the breakable zone.

Abstract: A support for bodywork of a vehicle elements is provided that includes means for receiving and fastening optical elements, fastener members for bodywork elements, docking zones for receiving the edges of bodywork elements and for putting them into position relative to the adjacent edges of bodywork elements and optical elements, and a means for positioning and fixing a hood lock. The equipment front face has generally two portions, a structural portion and a geometrical portion, corresponding to the vehicle front block divided into two modules, a structural module integrating various functional members of the vehicle, and a geometrical module integrating the bodywork elements for the front of the vehicle.

Abstract: A motor vehicle fender support comprising a lower portion for fixing to at least one rigid part of the structure of a vehicle, and an upper portion that is spaced apart from the lower portion and designed to support a top edge of a fender having an outside face that is visible from outside of the vehicle and an inside face that is opposite from the outside face, the support being shaped in such a manner as to hold the top edge of the fender at a distance from the rigid part of the vehicle structure that is closest to said edge. The support includes support areas each of which matches substantially the shape of the inside face of the fender in the vicinity of its top edge, the support areas being spaced apart from one another but together forming a support sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle part including means for supporting a light unit (16), said light unit support means possessing a so-called “operating”, initial position in which the light unit is held at a given height on the vehicle. The light unit support means can also take up a second, so-called “depressed” configuration on being subjected to a vertical force that is substantially equal to that of an impact with the head of a pedestrian, in which second configuration the light unit (16) is located lower down relative to the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use, at the front of a motor vehicle, of a fender and of a hood defining a fender-hood junction leaving predetermined clearance between an edge of the hood and an edge of the fender, in combination with an air bag for deploying to the outside of the vehicle. This use is performed in such a manner that while the air bag is deploying, it deforms the fender and/or the hood in such as a manner as to enlarge the clearance and create a passage between the edge of the hood and the edge of the fender. The invention also relates to retaining means and to a fender support, to a fender, to a fender module, and to a hood for a motor vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle sill moulding including a vertical undulating strip of plastics material and optionally, at least one holding plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlamp unit comprising: a headlamp unit casing comprising a structural portion provided with fastener means for fastening to the end of a crosspiece that is part of the structure of the vehicle, the structural portion being fastened so that it extends the crosspiece outwards and being strong enough to carry the headlamp unit casing while the vehicle is being used; a headlamp glass provided with fastener means for fastening to a geometrical module which is designed to support visible elements at the front of the vehicle; and a link between the headlamp unit casing and the glass, said link being strong enough for the glass, as fastened to the geometrical module, to support the headlamp unit casing so long as said headlamp unit casing is not yet mounted on the structure of the vehicle.

Abstract: A bumper shield is constituted by an outer skin and an inner skin lining. The skin lining is capable on its own of carrying light units, enabling the shield to be mounted in two stages. A method of mounting such a shield.

Abstract: A piece of motor vehicle bodywork (4, 5, 11) having an outside face directed towards the outside of the vehicle and an inside face opposite the outside face, the piece of bodywork being constituted in that it is constituted by a skin made of a material that allows light to pass, the inside face of the skin being covered at least in part by an opaque coating.

Abstract: The invention relates to a support for bodywork elements, the support comprising means for receiving and fastening optical elements, fastener members for bodywork elements, docking zones for receiving the edges of bodywork elements and for putting them into position relative to the adjacent edges of bodywork elements and optical elements, and means for positioning and fixing a hood lock. The invention also provides an equipment front face in two portions, namely a structural portion and a geometrical portion, together with a motor vehicle front block divided into two modules, namely a structural module integrating various functional members of the vehicle, and a geometrical module integrating the bodywork elements for the front of the vehicle.