Vehicle body construction

Details Vehicle body construction Vehicle body construction

1997-01-08

1998-09-01

Pape, Joseph D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Structural detail

296205, 296191, B62D 2700, B60J 700

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058000038

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle body construction (10) includes a tubular metallic space frame (11) to which panels are secured by adhesive connections (126) of elongated shapes. Each adhesive connection (126) includes elastomeric spacers (128) having a nominal thickness between the associated panel and tubular member in the range of 2 to 6 millimeters, and each adhesive connection also includes an adhesive (130) that extends between the associated panel and the tubular member intermediate the spacers and has a Shore A scale hardness in the range of 40 to 60.

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