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公开(公告)号：US20240399990A1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-05
申请号：US18678678
申请日：2024-05-30
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Jeffrey A. McHenry , Joseph R. Matecki , Aniruddha S. Parab , Ed C. Pendergrass
Abstract: A reinforcement beam for a vehicle has an outer beam profile and an inner beam profile. The outer beam profile define an elongated hollow body and includes a front wall portion and a rear wall portion. The outer beam profile may include upper and lower flanges that formed in planar extension of the font wall portion. The inner beam profile may include a C-shape defining an upper shear wall and a lower shear wall that each extend between the front wall portion and the rear wall portion. The outer beam profile and the inner beam profile may be formed from a single sheet material through a roll-forming process. The inner beam profile may be present over a central section of the elongated hollow body and have a length that is less than half the length of the elongated hollow body.
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公开(公告)号：US20240399987A1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-05
申请号：US18678985
申请日：2024-05-30
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Doug Witte , Jeffrey A. McHenry
Abstract: A reinforcement beam for a vehicle has an outer beam profile and a reinforcing insert introduced during the roll-forming process. The outer beam profile defines an elongated hollow body and includes a front wall portion and a rear wall portion. The outer beam profile may include upper and lower flanges formed in planar extension of the font wall portion. The reinforcing insert may define an upper shear wall and a lower shear wall that each extend between the front wall portion and the rear wall portion. The reinforcing insert may be introduced to a partial profile in a roll-forming process through an automated operation. The reinforcing insert may be present over a central section of the elongated hollow body and have a length that is less than half the length of the elongated hollow body.
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公开(公告)号：US20240308593A1
公开(公告)日：2024-09-19
申请号：US18606748
申请日：2024-03-15
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Matthew Kuipers
CPC classification number: B62D25/025 , B62D21/157
Abstract: A vehicle rocker assembly includes a sill structure having an inboard wall and an outboard wall defining an elongated hollow interior therebetween. The rocker assembly also includes a rocker insert that extends along the elongated hollow interior of the sill structure. The rocker insert includes a stiffening member that has a metal sheet defining a wave-shaped structure that includes upper wall sections, lower wall sections, and bulkhead wall sections integrally extending between the upper and lower wall sections. The bulkhead wall sections have a tapered shaped between an inner edge of the metal sheet facing the inboard wall of the sill structure and an outer edge of the metal sheet that faces the outboard wall of the sill structure.
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公开(公告)号：US20240149816A1
公开(公告)日：2024-05-09
申请号：US18499771
申请日：2023-11-01
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Joseph R. Matecki , Jeffrey A. McHenry , Ed C. Pendergrass
CPC classification number: B60R19/18 , B60R19/34 , B60R2019/1813
Abstract: A reinforcement beam for a vehicle has an outer beam and an inner beam. The outer beam spans laterally between crush cans of the vehicle. The outer beam forms an elongated hollow body that has a front wall and a rear wall extending along the length of the reinforcement beam. The inner beam is disposed along an intermediate section of the outer beam. The inner beam further includes an upper wall and a lower wall that each extend between the front wall and the rear wall of the outer beam. The front wall and the rear wall may include at least one rib that extends along the length of the outer beam.
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公开(公告)号：US20240075987A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18461363
申请日：2023-09-05
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Joseph Matecki , Jeffrey McHenry , Endry Gardian , Matthew Kuipers , Zehua Qin
CPC classification number: B62D21/152 , B62D21/02 , B62D25/085 , B62D29/00
Abstract: A front rail configured to be supported by a vehicle frame includes a tubular body formed by a roll-formed high-strength metal and configured to undergo axial loading during a front vehicle impact. The high-strength metal sheet defines a cross-sectional shape along a length of the tubular body. The tubular body includes a central wall extending from a first side wall to a second side wall defining at least a first longitudinal channel and a second longitudinal channel. A groove is disposed in first side wall of the tubular body and extends longitudinally along at least a portion of the length of the tubular body to stiffen the tubular body. A hole extends through the first side wall of the tubular body proximate the groove and is configured as a bend initiator.
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公开(公告)号：US20230347986A1
公开(公告)日：2023-11-02
申请号：US18309569
申请日：2023-04-28
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Matthew Kuipers , Zehua Qin
CPC classification number: B62D25/025 , B62D21/157
Abstract: A vehicle rocker assembly includes one or more of a sill outer or a sill inner to define an elongated hollow interior. The vehicle rocker assembly also includes a stiffening member disposed within the hollow interior. The rocker insert includes a first stiffening member having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall. The rocker insert also includes a second stiffening member including a plurality of wall sections that each include an upper portion engaged with the top wall and a lower portion engaged with the bottom wall at a location spaced along the length of the rocker insert from the upper portion. The top and bottom walls of the first stiffening member are configured to be supported by the second stiffening member when undergoing the inboard lateral impact force to increase lateral bending strength of the rocker insert.
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公开(公告)号：US20230264246A1
公开(公告)日：2023-08-24
申请号：US18309168
申请日：2023-04-28
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Douglas S. Baas , Joseph R. Matecki , Shawn R. Jasman
CPC classification number: B21D5/086 , B21C37/08 , B60R19/023 , B60R19/03 , B60R19/18 , B60R2019/1826 , B22F10/28
Abstract: A multi-tubular beam for a vehicle, such as a vehicle structure or a bumper reinforcement, includes an elongated beam formed with a metal sheet. The metal sheet has a central section and outer sections extending along a length of the metal sheet. The outer sections are disposed in opposing directions from the outer edges of the central section to provide adjacent first and second tubular portions. The central section forms a common center wall between the adjacent first and second tubular portions. A first edge portion of the metal sheet is disposed along and in parallel alignment with the center wall. The first edge portion is attached to the center wall at a first weld joint to form the first tubular portion. The first weld joint includes a weld material that extends through a thickness of the center wall and into a thickness of the first edge portion.
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公开(公告)号：US11691493B2
公开(公告)日：2023-07-04
申请号：US17113968
申请日：2020-12-07
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Mark Charles Stephens , Joseph Robert Matecki , Bob Brady , Matthew Kuipers , Paul Michael Roehm
IPC: B60K1/04 , B60L50/60 , B60L50/64 , H01M50/271 , H01M50/224 , H01M10/6572 , H01M50/204
CPC classification number: B60K1/04 , B60L50/64 , B60L50/66 , H01M50/224 , H01M50/271 , B60K2001/0438 , H01M10/6572 , H01M50/204 , H01M2220/20
Abstract: A battery tray for an electric vehicle includes a tub component that has a floor portion and a perimeter wall portion that integrally extends upward around a peripheral edge of the floor portion to border a battery containment area of the tub component. The tub component may include a plurality of cross member portions that integrally interconnect with the floor portion and the perimeter wall portion so as to span laterally across the battery containment area to divide the battery containment area into separate compartments. A support structure of the battery tray may have an elongated member coupled at an exterior side of each of opposing longitudinal sections of the perimeter wall portion of the tub component.
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公开(公告)号：US11661111B2
公开(公告)日：2023-05-30
申请号：US17464078
申请日：2021-09-01
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Matthew Kuipers , Zehua Qin , Kannan Ramamoorthy
CPC classification number: B62D25/025 , B62D21/157
Abstract: A vehicle rocker assembly includes an outer sill member and an inner sill member attached longitudinally along the outer sill member to define a hollow space along and between the inner and outer sill members. A tubular insert is disposed in the hollow space so as to extend longitudinally along the hollow space. The tubular insert has a crush control feature extending longitudinally along a wall of the tubular insert, such as upper and lower walls at opposing sides of the interior volume. The tubular insert is configured for side impact forces at the outer sill member to laterally deform the tubular insert at the crush control feature to provide an accordion-style lateral crush to absorb the side impact forces.
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公开(公告)号：US11660950B2
公开(公告)日：2023-05-30
申请号：US17695520
申请日：2022-03-15
Applicant: Shape Corp.
Inventor： Joseph R. Matecki , Dennis V. Rupar , James H. Dodd
CPC classification number: B60K1/04 , B60L50/64 , B60L50/66 , H01M50/249 , B60K6/28 , B60K6/405 , B60K2001/0438 , B60R16/04 , B60Y2306/01 , Y02T10/70
Abstract: A battery support structure for a vehicle includes a first peripheral member configured to be supported by a longitudinal section of a vehicle frame. A second peripheral member has an end surface that selectively attaches at an inside surface of the first peripheral member to enclose a corner section of a battery containment area. Prior to fixed attachment of the first and second peripheral members, a slip plane is defined between the end surface and the inside surface to adjust the second peripheral member along the first peripheral member to a predefined dimension of the battery containment area.
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