Structural or chassis part of a motor vehicle
AssigneeThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
InventorsTorsten Gieseke, Oliver Kleinschmidt, Lothar Patberg
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Abstract
The invention relates to a structural or chassis component of a motor vehicle, said structural or chassis component consisting of a composite material comprising an outer metallic layer, a middle plastics or plastics foam layer and an outer fiber-reinforced plastics layer. The object of providing a structural or chassis component which allows a further reduction in weight to be made without adversely affecting the load bearing capacity characteristics is achieved in that the thickness of the middle plastics layer is at least 0.2 mm.
Claims18
Structural component of a motor vehicle, said structural component consisting of a composite material comprising an outer metallic layer, a middle plastics or plastics foam layer and an outer fibre-reinforced plastics layer, wherein the thickness of the middle plastics layer is at least 0.2 mm and that the structural component is not part of the visible skin and is mainly used to receive and/or transmit forces which act on the motor vehicle.
Chassis component of a motor vehicle, said chassis component formed of a composite material comprising an outer metallic layer, a middle plastics or plastics foam layer and an outer fibre-reinforced plastics layer, wherein the thickness of the middle plastics layer is at least 0.2 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.