Automobile with improved passenger compartment
AssigneeFerrari S.P.A.
InventorsFlavio Manzoni, Matteo De Petris
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Abstract
Automobile comprising a pair of front wheels, a pair of rear wheels and an outer body having a floor, a front hood, a roof, and a windscreen extending between the front hood and the roof; the automobile further comprises a passenger compartment, which is obtained inside the outer body between the front and rear wheels, is frontally delimited by the windscreen and defines at least one driving position and one front passenger position side by side; advantageously, the automobile is provided, inside the passenger compartment, with a central pillar extending between the floor and the roof and arranged in the area of an intermediate longitudinal axis of the passenger compartment between the driving position and the front passenger position.
Claims6
An automobile (1) comprising:
- a pair of front wheels (2) and a pair of rear wheels (3);
- an outer body (4) having a floor (6), a front hood (7), a roof (8), and a windscreen (9) extending between the front hood (7) and the roof (8);
- a passenger compartment (5) obtained inside said outer body (4) between said front and rear wheels (2, 3), frontally bounded by said windscreen (9) and defining at least one driving position (15) and one front passenger position (16) side by side;
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- a central pillar (20) extending entirely inside said passenger compartment (5) between said floor (6) and said roof (8) and arranged at an intermediate longitudinal axis (A) of the passenger compartment (5) itself between said driving position (15) and said front passenger position (16),
- wherein said outer body further comprises two front sides extending on opposite sides of said front hood (7) and two rear sides, aligned with, and spaced from, respective front sides (10), wherein each front side and the corresponding rear side bound between themselves and with said floor and said roof a single totally free side door opening (24);
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- wherein said center pillar (20) defines at its opposite sides respective supports for anchoring seat belt restraint systems for the driving position (15) and for the front passenger position (16).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.