Sub-assembly for a motor vehicle dash board area

US6276739A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann VDO AG · DE

Inventor

• Rolf Wich · Großkrotzenburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 12, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K37/10
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An assembly for a cockpit area of a vehicle, in particular of a motor vehicle, having a cross member extending approximately over the width of a vehicle interior, the cross member having attachment points at its end regions for the connection to a vehicle cell and an attachment point which is eccentric to the vehicle longitudinal axis, for the connection to a steering column. In order to simplify the manufacture of the cockpit assembly and to reduce the wide variety of types of components used, the cross member and the attachment points form a constructional unit and that the external shape of the cross member and the attachment points for the connection to the vehicle cell and for the connection to the steering column are symmetrical to the longitudinal central plane of the cross member or are symmetrical to the geometrical central point of the cross member, which central point is situated on a parallel line to the vehicle longitudinal axis and perpendicularly above the longitudinal axis, the longitudinal central plane of the cross member being that plane which extends vertically and in the direction of the vehicle transverse axis and which intersects the geometrical central point…