Axle carrier for motor vehicles

US4453740A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Manfred von der Ohe · Stuttgart, DE
• Helmut Flemming · Biberach an der Riß, DE
• Dirk Siebelt · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Werner Konig · Leverkusen, DE
• Otto Solleder · Leutenbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 23, 1981
• Grant date: Jun 12, 1984
• Expiry date: Dec 23, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60G2206/604
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An axle carrier for motor vehicles having two side members extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and two transverse members which connect the side members and are connected to the side members so that the corners at the point of connection are rigid or stiff with respect to moments about a longitudinal axis of the side members. These side members are constructed as hollow profiles which are resistant to torsion and to bending and, in a region of the respective ends thereof, are provided with openings for accommodating elastic supporting elements enabling the connecting of the axle carrier to a body of the vehicle. The axle carrier connection for the wheel guide members are provided only on the side members. The transverse members are formed by open profiles flexible to torsion, with respect to their longitudinal axis, and resistant to bending in a vertical direction transversely to the longitudinal axis.