Motor vehicle body with wheel installation strut
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsUdo Mildner, Lothar Teske
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Abstract
A motor vehicle body is provided with a lateral front wall and a wheel installation strut connected therewith with an inner component and an outer component with an outer side wall. The outer component includes, but is not limited to a front portion with a lower front connecting flange, which is connected to the inner component and forms an angle with the horizontal which amounts to a maximum of approximately 20°, and a rear portion with a lower rear connecting flange, which is connected to the lateral front wall and forms an angle with the vertical which amounts to a maximum of approximately 20°.
Claims11
A motor vehicle body, comprising:
- a lateral front wall;
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- a wheel installation strut comprising:
- an inner component and an outer component,
- wherein the outer component comprises a front portion and a rear portion that overlap at an overlapping section and that are connected through a flank, the front portion comprises a lower front connecting flange and an upper front connecting flange that are connected to the inner component, and
- wherein the rear portion comprises a lower rear connecting flange and an upper rear connecting flange that are connected to the lateral front wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.