Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Patent
1997-09-26
2000-02-22
Hoge, Gary C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
B60R 2100
Patent
active
060271590
ABSTRACT:
A passenger car has a vehicle body with a passenger compartment and support structure including a collision responsive deformable front zone in front of the passenger compartment, a deformable rear zone behind the passenger compartment and at least one deformable center zone aligned to the passenger compartment and integrated in the vehicle body support structure and also effective in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The deformable center zone includes corrugations in passenger compartment floor structure members.
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Daimler-Chrysler AG
Hoge Gary C.
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