Composite vehicle body having sandwich panels integrally formed with frame parts to form individual body modules which are connected to other body modules to form the vehicle body

US5042395A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Messerschmitt Bolkow Blohm GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Wackerle · Ottobrunn, DE
• Franz Sperber · Kolbermoor, DE
• Josef Grober · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 1989
• Grant date: Aug 27, 1991
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B61D17/00
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A rail vehicle body consisting of a support frame and sandwich parts attached thereto having an outer and an inner cover layer and supporting layer glued in between them, comprises, with a view to cost-effective fabrication and above all reduction of assembly cost, individually made body modules which are designed in integral construction as a sandwich structure with support frame parts inserted in the region of the supporting layer and fastened to the cover layers and being provided at the edges of the support frame parts with fitting connections for assembly of the body modules.