Vehicle chassis having modular rear axle construction

US8925947B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG · DE

Inventors

• Kai Schmitz · Kürten, DE
• Axel Grüneklee · Duisburg, DE
• Burkhard Schulze-Bergkamen · Dortmund, DE
• Michael Brenneis · Wadern, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 27, 2012
• Grant date: Jan 6, 2015
• Expiry date: Feb 27, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D21/11
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a bodywork of a motor vehicle comprising side members and a rear axle construction which is connected to the bodywork, the rear axle construction having means for attaching the rear axle construction to the bodywork and having a suspension, and the rear axle construction being configured as a torsion-beam axle or as a multi-link axle. The object to provide a generic bodywork of a motor vehicle with a rear axle construction which allows, in a financially favorable manner, a modular rear axle concept, i.e. the selective use of a torsion-beam axle or of a multi-link axle is achieved in that the bodywork has means for receiving the attachment means of a torsion-beam axle and of a multi-link axle and has means for receiving the attachment means and the suspension of a torsion-beam axle and of a multi-link axle.