Center tunnel for a motor vehicle and method of making same

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1997-07-08

2000-01-18

Hoge, Gary C.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

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B62D 2520

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060151838

ABSTRACT:
A center tunnel for a vehicle, especially a motor vehicle, has a section shape that is open at the bottom and has sections in the form of hollow members that are directed lengthwise, at least areawise. A center tunnel that has a simple design and can be manufactured economically, and which is torsionally rigid and can accept high forces, is formed by a double-walled hollow body manufactured by the internal high-pressure shaping method, viewed in cross section, with spaced wall sections of the hollow body being brought together areawise.

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