Vehicle body comprising an interception device for frontal collisions with a slight overlap

US9937957B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG · DE

Inventors

• Martin Kibben · Dinslaken, DE
• Lothar Patberg · Aachen, DE
• Rolf Peter Röttger · Neheim, DE
• Markus Zörnack · Dortmund, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 19, 2014
• Grant date: Apr 10, 2018
• Expiry date: Nov 19, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D29/007
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle body may include a crossmember and a longitudinal member. The vehicle body helps ensure improved load absorption in collision events with small overlap between the crossmember and another vehicle or object. The deformation capabilities of the vehicle body in collision events involving a full surface area of the crossmember are not substantially impaired. Form-fitting members that comprise connection partners may be provided for the longitudinal member, wherein the form-fitting members ensure that a load path of collision energy is introduced into the longitudinal member selectively in the event of a collision with small overlap. A form-fitting member may form a form-fitting connection in a direction of the longitudinal member in the event of a collision.