Abstract: An energy storage unit for a motor vehicle has a support frame which can be non-destructively detachably mounted on a body of the motor vehicle and a plurality of storage modules for storing electrical energy which can be mounted on the support frame. The storage modules are configured as intrinsically sealed units which can be arranged on the support frame from bottom to top in the vertical direction of the vehicle and can be inserted into respective corresponding receiving openings in the support frame.

Abstract: An energy storage unit for a motor vehicle has a support frame which can be non-destructively detachably mounted on a body of the motor vehicle and a plurality of storage modules for storing electrical energy which can be mounted on the support frame. The storage modules are configured as intrinsically sealed units which can be arranged on the support frame from bottom to top in the vertical direction of the vehicle and can be inserted into respective corresponding receiving openings in the support frame.

Abstract: In order to increase the safety of vehicle occupants, in particular in order to reduce the stresses acting in a vehicle deceleration in the event of an impact, a force-transmission element (1) having two different levels is provided for an engine compartment. According to the invention this force-transmission element is incorporated into the force path which is initiated by the impact and it can be shifted from one level to another according to the position of the engine in the engine compartment.

Abstract: A head restraint of a vehicle seat has at least one elastically deformable container integrated therein. The container is at least partially filled with filling bodies and gas. An abrupt evacuation of the gas in the event of a crash changes the collision impact characteristics of the head restraint.

Abstract: The invention relates to an impact energy absorbing device for vehicles. The invention is suited, but not limited to, for use in rail vehicles. The aim of the invention is to provide an impact energy absorbing device, which also fulfils future requirements with regard to crash safety. In order to enable a larger working travel without having to increase the amount of force, the energy absorbing process is spatially displaced. The impact energy absorbing device comprises activatable or deactivatable means for absorbing impact energy. In one embodiment a front part of the rail vehicle is extended, swung out and/or pushed out counter to the direction of impact especially counter to the direction of travel, when these means are activated, and afterwards, the produced space is at least partially, in particular, completely filled with energy absorption elements.

Abstract: A head restraint of a vehicle seat has at least one elastically deformable container integrated therein. The container is at least partially filled with filling bodies and gas. An abrupt evacuation of the gas in the event of a crash changes the collision impact characteristics of the head restraint.

Abstract: An energy absorber having an essentially air-tight covering which surrounds a filling material and is provided with at least one feed line. In order to improve the absorption characteristics, the feed line is connected to a vacuum source and the energy absorber is coupled with a valve device as well as with a pre-crash sensor system.

Abstract: An energy-absorbing deformation system for a motor vehicle has at least one collapsing section movable with energy absorption from an extended absorption position into a telescoped deformation position. The at least one collapsing section is held in the normal resting position in its deformation position, and a drive device is associated with the at least one collapsing section. The collapsing section can be moved abruptly into an absorption position when the drive device is activated.

Abstract: An impact damper for a motor vehicle comprises an impact plate on which a collision force acts, as well as an elastically deformable part adjoining the impact plate in the impact direction, by whose elastic deformation in a collision impact energy is absorbed. At least one plastically deformable part is selectively connectable with the elastically deformable part. The plastically deformable part being subject to the influence of the impact plate and being plastically deformable as it absorbs energy in a vehicle collision when connected to operate together with the elastically deformable part.

Abstract: A shock absorber for a motor vehicle has a deformation body, which can be deformed in the case of a collision and into the path of which a blocking part protrudes, with which, due to the forces acting during a collision, a plastic deformation of the deformation body is achieved with absorption of the collision energy, it being possible to increase the deformation resistance of the deformation body by directing it into an additional deformation stage. For this purpose, the blocking body has at least two switched positions, in which it protrudes into the path of movement of the deformation body, as a result of which the deformation body is plastically deformed to a greater or lesser extent due to the forces acting during impact.

Abstract: An energy-absorbing device, particularly for rolling stock to provide protection therefor when potentially damaging impact occurs, includes first and second tubular elements which are fitted into one another and which are of unlike material.

Abstract: A commercial vehicle having a driver's cab, a chassis and a transport container. The transport container holds cargo, which is movably disposed therein. The transport container is fastened at a distance behind the driver's cab in the driving direction via impact-energy-absorbing bearings mounted on the chassis. The bearings are constructed and arranged to absorb impact energy particularly in the driving direction. The impact-energy-absorbing bearings prevent an uncontrolled impact of the transport container onto the driver's cab in the case of a collision.

Abstract: An impact absorbing outer body structure of a motor vehicle including an outer panel with a deformable impact region. For the protection of a person or object making impact on the outer-panel, the deformable impact region can be displaced outwardly toward said person or object. The outer panel is provided with at least one plastically deformable impact region which is weakened in relation to the rest of the outer panel, and a supporting shell is firmly connected to the outer panel on an inner side. The supporting shell has at least the stability of the rest of the outer panel, enclosing the impact region and forming, along with the outer panel, a closed cavity. In the event of an impact load, the plastically deformable impact region can be expanded rapidly outward by means of a high-pressure charge, such as a pyrotechnical propellant charge, to provide a deformation area to absorb the energy of the impact. The impact absorbing structure is particularly used in hoods and doors of motor vehicles.

Abstract: A firewall for a vehicle body including stable rigid side parts in the shape of an inverted U and a deformation insert connected in the part of the open central area of the inverted U. The deformation insert allows at least partial intrusion of assemblies from the engine compartment into the passenger compartment in the event of a vehicle collision. This design permits a shorter front end.

Abstract: A motor vehicle impact protection arrangement protects persons and has an impact protection device which is rendered operative in a defined protection area only when the danger of an impact is signalled. An energy-absorbing material is provided so that, when a danger of an impact has not yet been signalled, the material is situated in a closed space below the impact protection area and emerges only when the danger of an impact is signalled as an energy-absorbing impact protection device in the defined impact protection area.