Floor system for a motor vehicle
AssigneeDaimlerChrysler AG
InventorsGuenter Hoelzel, Franz Maier
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Abstract
A motor vehicle having a floor system which has an enlarged thickness in the area of the passenger compartment, the floor system being reinforced for improving the occupant protection. In order to reduce the danger of excessive deformations of the vehicle occupant compartment in the event of a side impact of a passenger car onto the motor vehicle, the floor system has a deflecting slope on its underside, which deflecting slope, starting from the side of the floor system, extends diagonally downward toward the longitudinal center plane of the vehicle.
Claims13
A floor system for a motor vehicle below a passenger compartment, the floor system having an enlarged thickness and being reinforced by at least one cross member, wherein the floor system has an underbody including an underside with at least one deflecting slope and a top side on which a lateral end area of said cross member is supported, said at least one deflecting slope extending, starting from a side of the floor system, diagonally downward toward a longitudinal center plane of the motor vehicle.
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