Subframe for motor vehicles

US6109629A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Bortz · Stuttgart, DE
• Hubert Bruhl · Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
• Martin Mayerhofer · Reutlingen, DE
• Harald Schwer · Bonndorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 16, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 29, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 16, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60G2800/222
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A subframe for motor vehicles, in particular for the front axles of passenger cars, which includes side parts running in the longitudinal vehicle direction that are joined by upper and lower cross elements running in the transverse vehicle direction to form a box profiled section, which is deformable in the longitudinal direction in response to longitudinal forces produced by a collision, and which is able to be used as an assembly unit.