Motor vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsFranz-Xaver Neumeier, Juergen Schippan
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Abstract
A motor vehicle in which a floor of the body is reinforced by reinforcing struts arranged in V shapes, in which a body with a high rigidity is achieved by mounting the rear end-area ends of rear reinforcing struts arranged in a V-shape on a connecting area on the bottom of the vehicle rear end, where the ends of two other rear end-area reinforcing struts that run in a V shape are arranged, and by mounting the rear end area of the two other reinforcing struts so they run obliquely to the rear in the direction of a rear end of the vehicle and obliquely toward the outside in the direction of rear chassis beam members, with the rear ends of the other reinforcing struts being mounted on the rear chassis beam members.
Claims7
A motor vehicle having a self-supporting body, comprising:
- a passenger compartment,
- a floor,
- chassis beam members running on the floor of the body and extending from a vehicle front end past the passenger compartment to a vehicle rear end,
- two rear reinforcing struts arranged in a V pattern, each rear reinforcing strut attached at a front end to one of said chassis beam members running beneath the passenger compartment in a rear half of the vehicle, and at a rear end on a bottom of the vehicle rear end,
- wherein the two rear reinforcing struts are arranged approximately in a horizontal plane, and
- wherein the rear ends of the rear reinforcing struts are mounted at a connecting area on the bottom of the vehicle rear end,
- further comprising two other reinforcing struts running in a V shape,
- wherein the two other reinforcing struts are each mounted at an inner end at the connecting area on the bottom of the vehicle rear end and at an outer end on the rear chassis beam members, and
- wherein the two other reinforcing struts run from the bottom of the vehicle rear end to the rear chassis beam members at an angle relative to the horizontal plane, and each of the two other reinforcing members is disposed at an oblique angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle and at an oblique angle relative to a transverse axis of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.