Passenger car cell with load-bearing shell structure

US5649735A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Johann Tomforde · Sindelfingen, DE
• Bernhard Joseph · Leonberg, DE
• Hubert Scheper · Weil der Stadt, DE
• Ralph Staud · Bad Saulgau, DE
• Stefan Mayr · Landau an der Isar, DE
• Oliver Neuland · Bad Kötzting, DE
• Axel Kleinschmidt · Taunusstein, DE
• Christoph Severin · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 16, 1994
• Grant date: Jul 22, 1997
• Expiry date: Dec 16, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D23/005
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A passenger cell for a passenger car with a load bearing shell structure. The A-pillar and the adjoining lateral roof frame each have a two-part longitudinal profile. The two longitudinal profile parts are arranged at a distance from each other and an inner longitudinal profile part protruding into the interior as a roof gripping rail.