US Patent Issued to HUTCHINSON on Sept. 22 for "Sacrificial composite part that absorbs energy during a vehicle collision" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,605, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HUTCHINSON (Paris).

"Sacrificial composite part that absorbs energy during a vehicle collision" was invented by Guy Valembois (Lauzerville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sacrificial composite part (1, 10, 100) that absorbs the energy released at the time of a vehicle collision with an impacting object (2), said part consisting of an assembly of a plurality of cells (3, 30, 300), each cell comprising a wall (5, 50, 500) connecting a first end (6, 60, 600) and a second end (7, 70, 700) of said cell, the direction of penetration (8) of the impacting object into...