Engine cradle with deflector device

US8870224B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC · US

Inventors

• Bhushan W. Dandekar · Rochester Hills, US
• Mohammed N. Shaik · Canton, US
• Young Doe · Chesterfield Township, US
• Bradley W. Enyeart · Milford, US
• Michael L. Stockard · Oxford, US
• Len V. Peschansky · Beverly Hills, US
• Yunjun Li · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 9, 2013
• Grant date: Oct 28, 2014
• Expiry date: May 23, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D21/155
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cradle for mounting an engine in a vehicle has left and right side members, and a rear cross member and front cross member extending between the left and right side members. The cradle has left and right front body mounts. Left and right deflector devices are mounted respectively on the cradle adjacent the left and right body mounts and forwardly of the vehicle wheels. Each of the left and right deflector devices including an impact receiving member that projects outwardly and rearwardly from the cradle to receive an impact load offset outboard from the body mounts. Each impact receiving member has an upper and lower sheet metal shell providing a top wall welded to a top wall of the cradle and a bottom wall welded to the bottom wall of the cradle, and a front impact receiving wall extending vertically between the top wall and the bottom wall.