Hollow bearer for vehicles and method for its manufacture
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWilli Reidelbach, Hermann Renner, Wolfgang Klie
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Abstract
A bearer, especially a longitudinal bearer of a motor vehicle frame, which is constructed as hollow profile and includes a deformable section dissipating impact energy; the walls of the longitudinal bearer have different strength characteristics as a result of a treatment of these areas changing the strength of the wall material compared to non-treated areas; a greater strength thereby exists in the treated wall areas than in the untreated areas.
Claims5
A method of manufacturing a hollow longitudinal bearer for a motor vehicle body construction comprising the steps of subjecting a plurality of elongated sheet metal blanks to a localized treatment increasing the strength of transverse zones thereof relative to the strength of remaining untreated areas, and joining said blanks together along longitudinally extending surfaces to form said hollow longitudinal bearer, wherein a first of said blanks is deformed into a configuration having longitudinally extending flanges and wherein said joining step is performed by connecting the flanges of the first blank to the second blank in a manner defining a hollow space therebetween and exclusively within the treated areas of higher strength, with untreated areas of said blanks remaining unconnected.
A method of manufacturing a hollow longitudinal bearer for a motor vehicle body construction comprising the steps of subjecting a plurality of elongated sheet metal blanks to a localized treatment increasing the strength of transverse zones thereof relative to the strength of remaining untreated areas, and joining said blanks together along longitudinally extending surfaces to form said hollow longitudinal bearer, wherein the joining step is performed by aligning the treated areas of the blanks and joining them so as to create strip-shaped, circumferentially extending treated areas.
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