Passenger vehicle body frame
OwnerJ. Bruce Emmonsinventor
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Abstract
A passenger vehicle body frame comprises a pair of opposed beam members defining a passenger compartment, with front and rear truss assemblies at opposite ends of the beam members spanning and rigidly interconnecting the beam members as their sole lateral reinforcement.
Claims10
A passenger vehicle body frame comprising a pair of generally parallel opposed upright beam members defining a passenger compartment therebetween;
- front and rear truss assemblies at opposite ends of said beam members spanning and rigidly interconnecting the beam members in a rigid unit construction, the truss assemblies being the primary frame lateral reinforcement between the beam members;
- said truss assemblies each being three dimensional having a top, a bottom, opposed sides, a front and a back;
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- each of said top, bottom, sides, front and back including a generally planar truss, having a plurality of interconnected struts defining a series of adjacent rigidly interconnected triangles.
A passenger vehicle body frame comprising a pair of generally parallel opposed upright beam members defining a passenger compartment therebetween;
- front and rear truss assemblies at opposite ends of said beam members spanning and rigidly interconnecting the beam members in a rigid unit construction, the truss assemblies being the primary frame lateral reinforcement between the beam members;
- said truss assemblies including at least one upper cross-body strut (59) and at least one lower cross-body strut (61), each interconnecting said beam members, a plurality of cross struts (79), and at least one angular strut (67), one end of said at least one angular strut (67) being connected to a spaced portion of said at least one lower cross-body strut (61) and an opposite end of said at least one angular strut (67) being connected to an end portion of said at least one upper cross-body strut (59).
A passenger vehicle body frame comprising a pair of generally parallel opposed upright beam members having lower ends, horizontal and vertical parts, and defining a passenger compartment therebetween;
- front and rear truss assemblies at opposite ends of said beam members spanning and rigidly interconnecting the beam members in a rigid unit construction, the truss assemblies being the primary frame lateral reinforcement between the beam members;
- each of said truss assemblies including a plurality of upper (59) and lower (61) transverse cross-body struts interconnecting upper and lower portions of adjacent ends of said beam members, respectively;
- an outwardly positioned box-like truss member (64) aligned with said beam members and including a plurality of parallel vertically spaced transverse cross struts (79);
- opposed pairs of vertically spaced upper and lower horizontal struts (65) being connected at one end thereof to said cross struts (79), and at an opposite end thereof to said beam members (53);
- a first pair of angular struts (67), each angular strut having upper ends, said upper ends of said struts converge (68) and are connected to each other and to one of said upper cross-body struts (59), and their opposite ends are connected to end portions of one of said cross struts (79);
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- a second pair of angular struts (67), each angular strut having lower ends, said lower ends of said struts converge (68) and are connected to each other and to one of said lower cross-body struts (61), and their opposite ends are connected to end portions of one of said cross struts (79);
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- a third pair of spaced upright angular struts (67), each angular strut having lower ends, said lower ends of said struts converge (68) and are connected to each other and to one of said lower cross-body struts (61), and their opposite ends are connected to end portions of one of said upper cross-body struts (59);
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- a fourth pair of spaced upright angular struts (67), each angular strut having ends, said ends of said struts converge (68) and are connected to each other and to one of said cross struts (79), and their opposite ends are connected to another of said cross struts (79).
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