US 12,291,269 B2
Accident safety device for a motor vehicle, motor vehicle and method for controlled conversion of impact energy by means of an accident safety device
Predrag Cavnic, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/919,388
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 23, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/057428
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/213763, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 111 101.0 (DE), filed on Apr. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0159105 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B62D 25/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 21/157 (2013.01) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B62D 25/025 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An accident safety device for a motor vehicle, comprising:
two separate accident safety bodies which are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance and are fastenable opposite each other to a motor vehicle body-in-white, wherein
one of the accident safety bodies is fastenable to an underbody element of the motor vehicle body-in-white,
another of the accident safety bodies has a catch element which corresponds to the one accident safety body and is configured to block the two separate accident safety bodies from avoiding each other in an event of an accident of the motor vehicle, and
when spaced apart from each other by the predetermined distance, the one accident safety body is external to a catch space defined by the catch element of the another of the accident safety bodies.