Body pillar for a motor vehicle

US6644725B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Klaus Braitmaier · Herrenberg, DE
• Roland Joerg · Rottenburg am Neckar, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 4, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 11, 2003
• Expiry date: Oct 4, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D25/04
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a body pillar for a motor vehicle, which is put together from a plurality of profiled shells to form a hollow pillar which includes a wall pillar section and a roof pillar section angled with respect thereto, a reinforcing tube being fastened within the hollow pillar, the tube extending in the longitudinal direction of the roof pillar section into the wall pillar section. The reinforcing tube is supported in the transition region between the roof pillar and wall pillar section by an end of a strut which extends in the vertical direction of the wall pillar section and encloses a supporting angle with the reinforcing tube.