Automobile front body construction

Details Automobile front body construction Automobile front body construction

1981-01-08

1982-12-07

Mitchell, David M.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Structural detail

180 90, 296 3712, B60K 2008

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043623310

ABSTRACT:
An automobile front body construction which includes a reinforced beam assembly extending between a pair of front pillars. The reinforced beam assembly includes an elongated main frame member of generally U-shaped cross-section, having a wall section and upper and lower flanges protruding from the wall section generally at right angles thereto. The main frame member also has a generally rectangular opening extending in face-to-face relation to the wall section and over the entire length thereof. An elongated closure member closes the rectangular opening and is positioned in spaced and face-to-face relation to the wall section, the opposite end portions of the wall section being rigidly secured to an upper dash panel. The opposite ends of the closure member are rigidly connected to the respective front pillars.

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