Passenger motor vehicle
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWalter Schmid, Karl Wilfert, deceased, by Thomas Wilfert, legal heir
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Abstract
A motor vehicle encompassing a chassis which includes a front and rear axle and a vehicle body which is supported upon the chassis by at least two connecting parts in such manner that the body may move in a translatory manner with respect to the chassis while being capable of pivoting about an axis located in the driving direction. Additionally, the support of at least one of each wheels springs is coordinated between the corresponding axle and the vehicle body. The connecting part includes a support column which, at its upper end, is elastically connected to the vehicle body by a substantially central bearing support and, at its lower end, is supported upon the chassis by several bearing supports.
Claims21
A motor vehicle comprising :
- (a) chassis means with front and rear axle;
- (b) vehicle body means;
- (c) connecting means including at least two support column means elastically retained at least at one end and provided with upper and lower bearing support means;
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- (d) wheel spring means coordinated between the chassis means and the vehicle body means;
- wherein said connecting means supports the vehicle body means upon the chassis means by way of at least two support column means arranged one behind the other, transverse to the driving direction, with at least one support column means being elastically connected, at its upper end, to the vehicle body means by a substantially central upper bearing support means and being further connected, at its lower end, to the chassis means by lower bearing support means whose lines of action intersect approximately in the vertical axis of the support column means;
- whereby said support column means is operable in the manner of a crank and thus the vehicle body means may move in a translatory manner with respect to the chassis means while also being capable of pivoting about an axis located substantially in the driving direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.