Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Patent
1995-12-13
1998-08-04
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
296188, 296203, 296204, B62D 2508
Patent
active
057883220
ABSTRACT:
A body structure for a rear carriage of a vehicle, particularly a convertible has a folding-top compartment and a rear wall which is disposed in front of the folding-top compartment and which is connected to a floor and laterally exterior side rail structures. The folding-top compartment bottom is connected with the rear wall. For increasing the torsional and bending rigidity of the body structure, the forces transmitted from the rearward chassis to the body structure are, on the one hand, directed by way of the adjoining side rail structures and, on the other hand, by way of an upper cross member into a central force flux center point. Depending on the load, the forces at the central force flux center point are transmitted into several members of a rear-wall-side hollow member structure. The ends of the members of the hollow member structure which face away from the force flux center point are connected to the exterior side rail structures.
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Pavelek Jim
Wolf Andreas M.
Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG
Pedder Dennis H.
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