Front end of a motor vehicle

US6808039B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Arno Roehringer · Ditzingen, DE
• Alfred Schnabel · Althengstett, DE
• Rodolfo Schoeneburg · Hechingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 18, 2002
• Grant date: Oct 26, 2004
• Expiry date: Feb 5, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D25/08
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A front end of a motor vehicle, e.g., a passenger vehicle, having two longitudinal members, extending essentially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and an integral member on which a drive unit of the motor vehicle is mounted. The integral member has, on each side of the vehicle, a base member which extends essentially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and is fastened in each case by a front supporting pillar and by a rear supporting pillar to one of the longitudinal members. Each longitudinal member being of deformable configuration in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle at least between the supporting pillars. In order to improve the deformation behavior of the front end, each base member is fastened exclusively via its front supporting pillar and its rear supporting pillar at the bottom to associated longitudinal members. Each base member is configured such that it has greater stiffness in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle than the respectively associated longitudinal member. The supporting pillars are configured and connected to the associated longitudinal member and/or to the associated base member such that they pivot abou…