MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441028528 A) filed by Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, on April 8, 2024, for 'a vehicle front bumper assembly including a middle bracket support system.'
Inventor(s) include Baskar S.; Gupta Rajiv; M. Govindaraj; Ritesh Kakade; and Vinayak Hebbar.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A front bumper assembly (100) including a middle bracket system (10), comprising top-grill bracket (1), upper and lower facia (2, 7), top-grill (3), chrome bezels (4), tow-hook (5), air-intake-grill (6), and fog-lamp bezels (8); wherein said middle bracket support system (10) includes seven mounting points (S1-S7) with a respective hole therein, said mounting points (S5, S7) having a 2-way locator slot with hole (C); and oval hole/slot (SL); six snap attachments (SA1-SA6) for connecting middle bracket support system (10) to front-bumper upper facia (2); five snap-mountings (M1-M5) to connect said system (10) to front-bumper lower facia (7); and six triangular reinforcement ribs (LR1-LR6) and (RR1-RR6) each configured on LHS and RHS thereof; wherein said middle bracket support system (10) eliminates the warping of upper and lower facia (2, 7), enhances the rigidity and stiffness between top-grill (3) and upper facia (2), and said system (10) is made of polycarbonate/acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (PC/ASA)."
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