Structural component for a motor vehicle
AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG
InventorsPhilipp Bronswick, Sven Kuhlmann
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Abstract
A structural component for a motor vehicle, with a component body (2) made from a sheet, which includes at least one shell-shaped body portion (3) formed from the sheet and at least one receiving bush (6) formed from the sheet that extends along its circumference between first and second circumferential ends (4, 5), which at the first circumferential end (4) merges into the shell-shaped body portion (3) and at the second circumferential end (5) merges into a strengthening strip (7) formed from the sheet and attached to the shell-shaped body portion (3). The strengthening strip (7) completes the shell-shaped body portion (3) to form an at least partially closed hollow section (8).
Claims18
A structural component for a motor vehicle, the structural component comprising:
- a component body being made from a sheet, the component body comprises at least one shell-shaped body portion formed from the sheet and at least one receiving bush formed from the sheet, the at least one receiving bush forming an open cylinder, which defines a symmetry axis, and extending about a circumference between first and second circumferential ends, the at least one receiving bush merges, at the first circumferential end thereof, into a back of the shell-shaped body portion and merges, at the second circumferential end thereof, into a strengthening strip formed from the sheet and attached to the shell-shaped body portion,
- the shell-shaped body portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the structural component and comprising the back and two sidepieces, the two sidepieces being connected to and extending from laterally opposite sides of the back,
- the strengthening strip having laterally opposite sides that are respectively connected the two sidepieces such that the strengthening strip at least partially completes the shell-shaped body portion to form a closed hollow section, and
- an axial end of the two being connected to the back at the first circumferential end of the at least one receiving bush and connected to the strengthening strip at the second circumferential end of the at least one receiving bush.
A method of producing a structural component for a motor vehicle, which component comprises a component body, the method comprising:
- forming the component body by deforming a sheet into a blank having at least one shell-shaped body portion;
- deforming the blank such that the shell-shaped body portion comprises back piece and two side pieces that extend perpendicularly from laterally opposite sides of the back piece;
- deforming at least one intermediate area of the blank connected with the shell-shaped body portion to produce a receiving bush having a form of an open cylinder, an end of the back piece of the shell-shaped body portion forming a first circumferential end of the receiving bush;
- deforming an end area of the blank, connected to the intermediate area, to produce a strengthening strip, and an end of the strengthening strip forming a second circumferential end of the receiving bush;
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- attaching laterally opposite sides of the strengthening strip to the two side pieces of the shell-shaped body portion in such manner that the strengthening strip completes the shell-shaped body portion at least partially to form a closed hollow section, and such that an axial end of the two side pieces is connected to the back piece of the shell-shaped body portion at the first circumferential end of the receiving bush, and is connected to the strengthening strip at the second circumferential end of the receiving bush.
A structural component for a motor vehicle, the structural component comprising:
- a component body extending in a longitudinal direction and being made from a metallic sheet, the component body comprising at least one shell-shaped body portion, at least one receiving bush and a strengthening strip which are each formed from the metallic sheet, the receiving bush having a form of an open cylinder comprising first and second circumferential ends,
- the shell-shaped body portion having a back piece and two side pieces that extend perpendicularly from opposite lateral sides of the back piece,
- a first longitudinal end of the back piece of the shell-shaped body portion merging into the first circumferential end of the receiving bush and a first longitudinal end of the strengthening strip merging into the second circumferential end of the receiving bush,
- the receiving bush defining an axis that is normal to the longitudinal direction,
- the strengthening strip and the shell-shaped body portion being fixed to one another to form a closed hollow section, and
- a first longitudinal end of the two side pieced is connected to the first longitudinal end of the back piece of the shell-shaped body portion and the first circumferential end of the receiving bush, and is connected to the first longitudinal end of the strengthening strip and the second circumferential end of the receiving bush.
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