Motor vehicle body designed for a collision with small overlap

US9555834B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Karlheinz Volz · Gilching, DE
• Hans-Peter Eck · Eberbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 19, 2015
• Grant date: Jan 31, 2017
• Expiry date: May 19, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D25/2081
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle body includes a longitudinal beam, a bumper cross member, which is fixed to one end of the longitudinal beam, wherein an end section of the bumper cross member protrudes over the longitudinal beam in the transverse direction, and a cantilever beam, which protrudes into a space between a wheel mount and the bumper cross member. The cantilever beam and the end section of the bumper cross member are disposed so as to cooperate with each other such that, during a frontal collision, in particular during a frontal collision with small overlap, the end section of the bumper cross member deformed by the frontal collision impacts an end face of the cantilever beam and can be supported at this end face so that further deformation of the end section of the bumper cross member is prevented.