Vehicle construction
AssigneeFokker Special Products B.V.
InventorsHenricus Nicolaas Maria Ammerlaan, Hendrik Jacob Hartgers, Nicolaas Gijsbert Smink
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Abstract
A vehicle construction includes a body with a base, a roof, two longitudinal walls joining the base and the roof and at least four wheels connected to the base, which base, roof and longitudinal walls comprise sandwich panels which are jointed to one another at their longitudinal edges. The thickness of the sandwich panel forming the base is of the same order of magnitude as the thickness of the roof or sandwich panel forming a longitudinal wall and the sandwich panels of base, roof and longitudinal walls form a bending- and torsion-resistant tube.
Claims17
A vehicle construction, comprising:
- a body with a base, a roof, and two longitudinal walls joining said base and said roof;
- plural wheels connected to said base,
- said base, roof and walls comprising sandwich panels that are joined to one another at their longitudinal edges forming a bending and torsion resisting tube,
- a thickness of the sandwich panel of said base being of the same order of magnitude as a thickness of at least one of (a) the sandwich panel of said roof and (b) the sandwich panels of the walls,
- each of said longitudinal walls comprises plural said sandwich panels that are joined to one another at lateral edges and joined to respective sandwich panels of said roof and said base at longitudinal edges;
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- seat rails fixed along said longitudinal walls and said base, each said seat rail being a closed section with an outside matched to a contour of the corresponding said longitudinal wall and base and a sloping inside.
A vehicle construction, comprising:
- a body with a substantially horizontal base, a substantially horizontal roof, and two longitudinal walls joining said base and said roof;
- and
- plural wheels connected to said base,
- said base, roof and two longitudinal walls each comprising sandwich panels that are joined to one another at their respective longitudinal edges,
- a bottom portion, adjacent to said base, of each of said sandwich panels of said two longitudinal walls being curved to define respective substantially horizontal base strips that integrally extend said sandwich panels of said longitudinal walls horizontally at their respective bottoms, said substantially horizontal base strips joining said base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.