Load rod for vehicles

US4398744A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Roman Schoppel · Sindelfingen, DE
• Wolfgang Fischer · Eppelheim, DE
• Bernd Harloff · Böblingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 2, 1981
• Grant date: Aug 16, 1983
• Expiry date: Mar 2, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S294/904
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A load rod for vehicles, especially motor vehicles, which rod is constructed so as to be a tow rod, an impact rod, a mounting rod, or similar rod. The load rod includes a loop portion as well as force distributing legs that diverge from the loop portion and extend at a distance from each other. The force distributing legs are provided with a mounting section for enabling a mounting of the force distribution legs at portions of a body of the motor vehicle that have greater rigidity. The mounting sections are joined to the body portion of the motor vehicle by a welding. The load rod, formed as a connecting rod, includes at least two individual shaped rods having a predetermined cross section. The individual shaped rods are, within a connecting level, placed against each other with their rod loop portions and are welded together, while the individual force distributing legs diverge outwardly in a direction from both sides of the connecting level.