Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1997-01-31
1998-04-07
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
296166, 180 8912, B60P 332
Patent
active
057355681
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a unitized cab-sleeper assembly that may be mounted on a truck-tractor chassis. The cab-sleeper assembly includes lightweight monocoque cab and sleeper modules that are mechanically coupled in a unique manner to achieve a unitary structure with great structural integrity, while also providing a comfortable ride, when mounted to a truck-tractor chassis. The cab-sleeper assembly includes in certain embodiments a unique ladderlike subframe, which consists of mechanically coupled separate subframes of the cab and sleeper modules. In other embodiments, the subframe is not ladderlike, and the cab-sleeper floors may be fabricated of a composite material over a lightweight core. Moreover, the rear of the cab is coupled to the front of the sleeper by concealed couplings, located at least at each corner of the cab-sleeper interface. In an important feature of the invention, each of the pair of sleeper mounts of the cab-sleeper assembly is located about midway along the length of the sleeper.
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Sotelo Jesus D.
Western Star Trucks, Inc.
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