Mercedes-Benz Aktiengesellschaft

Daimler-Benz Ag

Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Anton Reichel

Bruno Sacco

Johann Tomforde

Berthold Klein

Harald Leschke

Hermann Burst

Olivier Pierre Boulay

Anthony W Lo

Shuichi Yamashita

Helmut Kretschmer

Werner Heinz

Wolfgang Muller

Franz Lecher

Eugen Kolb

Michael Raeth

Gerhard Steinle

Robert Koehr

David W Slaughter

Mike Ma

Hubert Scheper

Bernard Lohmann

Manfred Hochkonig

Manfred Hochkoenig

Oliver Boulay

An automobile has a ventilation shaft extending lengthwise on the vehicle floor between the front seats, the shaft being connected to an air-conditioning system to ventilate the foot area of the rear seats. A console is displaceably mounted on the top of the ventilation shaft, with an air duct formed in the bottom area of the console. The duct communicates in an air-exchange relationship with the ventilation shaft. To use the console that can be displaced lengthwise for optimally providing the rear seat passengers with air that is either warmed or air-conditioned as desired, the opening of the air duct that is at the end of the console that faces the rear seats is configured to optionally close or open, and a plurality of air outlet openings is provided in the shaft wall of the ventilation shaft. The openings are arranged in series within the displacement range of the console and are each provided with a closing element. A control mechanism operates between the console and the closing elements.

Vehicle

A covering part for mounting on a front wall of an occupant compartment of a vehicle, having an instrument panel and a center console which starts in the center on a lower instrument panel area and continues in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle occupant compartment. For providing a sufficiently large free surface for a combined accommodation of a plurality of operating elements with or without control and display elements in a cohesive operating unit and of large-surface air outlet openings, the instrument panel is constructed with a hood-shaped center part which extends in a diagonally sloped manner with respect to the center console and changes into the center console at the end side. The center part is provided with a bridge console spanning the center part at a distance from its front surface, which bridge console extends from the upper instrument panel area to the center console.

Vehicle covering part with large free surface

A vehicle, especially a minivan, having at least one rear seat located behind the front seat as viewed in the direction of travel. The seat has a seat back that can be pivoted onto a seat part. A floor pan is located in front of the rear seat in the vehicle floor for accommodating lowering of the rear seat. A folding mechanism pivots the rear seat, folded together by folding the seat back onto the seat part, into the floor pan. To achieve a limited floor pan thickness while retaining a seat height of the seat part of the rear seat that is determined by seating comfort, the folding mechanism has two front and two rear supports, each of the supports being pivotable around a pivot axis aligned transversely to the lengthwise direction of the vehicle and secured to the seat part. The supports hold the rear seat in its operating position at a predetermined seat height above the vehicle floor. The two front supports are mounted so that their ends remote from the seat part can pivot around a pivot axis that is aligned transversely to the lengthwise direction of the vehicle and is defined below the vehicle floor, while the two rear seats are each mounted releasably in a supporting bearing accommodated in the vehicle floor.

Vehicle seat arrangement

Exterior surface configuration of a front vehicle headlight

Exterior surface configuration of a rear vehicle light

A small two-seater car, which has a driver seat and a passenger seat disposed laterally adjacent one another and in facing relationship to an asymmetric dashboard. The passenger seat is arranged to be longitudinally offset to the rear with respect to the driver seat located beside it, by up to half the depth of a seat cushion. The dashboard arranged in front of the seats extends back with its side which is directed towards the seat in its passenger-side region to such an extent that the distance between the dashboard and the seat front edge is approximately the same for the driver seat and the passenger seat. In the region of a rear axle, outer frame side members extend, in a bent-off section, up to at least the level of a tire upper edge, such that at least the passenger seat is protected with respect to side impact forces. The bodywork of the vehicle has virtually no overhang beyond the rear wheels, with the result that, in the event of a rear impact, the rear axle is used to absorb impact forces before more pronounced intrusion to the rear takes place.

Small two-seater car

A passenger compartment is disclosed with a transverse stiffener arranged in the region of the seats for passenger cars with restricted passenger compartments. A force-transmitting side member is arranged as a reinforcement element in each side door and a force-transmitting seat crossmember is supported between the two side members so that it can be displaced longitudinally, at least one seat being fastened to the seat crossmember.

Passenger compartment with a transverse stiffener arranged in the region

The invention relates to a lowerable vehicle roof having a dimensionally stable roof shell in a front end area of the roof, which shell extends over the entire width of the roof and, when the roof is closed, is detachably connected to a frame profile of a front windscreen frame, lying opposite its front end face. When the roof is open the roof shell is disposed in a substantially transverse plane of the vehicle located behind a seat area. The roof shell which is swivelled about a horizontal vehicle transverse axis protrudes upwards in relation to a center horizontal plane of the vehicle and has in the protruding longitudinal area a viewing opening located essentially in the center of the vehicle width when the roof is open. So that the front end area of the vehicle roof can be made non-transparent, the front end face of the roof shell delimits, in the central area of the roof, an indentation of the roof shell which extends in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle when the roof is closed, the frame profile of the front windscreen frame being widened in the central area in a fashion which is complementary to said roof shell, and the roof shell being completely upright when the roof is open, as a result of which the indentation at the front end of the roof shell can be utilized as a viewing opening.

Vehicle roof

A retractable roof for vehicles, in particular a hard roof for cabriolets, has roof pillars extending to the side of a rear window of the roof. The roof pillars, as seen from the vehicle side, enclose an obtuse angle with that longitudinal region of the roof which is situated in front of them. The pillars have a stowing position, when the roof is retracted, in a receiving space which is situated below the roof pillars when the roof is closed and into which the roof can be moved along its length, with the roof pillars in the lead, during retraction, after which they rest steeply erect in the receiving space. To ensure that the receiving space in the vehicle can be usefully reduced in size, the rear window forms the lower boundary of the roof over its width lying between the roof pillars when the roof is closed and can be moved out of its operating position into a stowing position which, with the roof retracted, is at a vertical distance from the lower ends of the roof pillars.

Retractable roof for vehicles

A radiator arrangement for a motor vehicle has air inlet openings in the front of the arrangement and lateral air discharge openings. The arrangement is composed of an air guiding housing which has two separated spaces for receiving the water radiator and the oil radiator respectively. Separate air inlet ducts are provided for the spaces and a combined air guiding duct combines the air flows downstream of the radiators. The air is then discharged through lateral discharge openings in the side walls of the vehicle located ahead of the front wheels.

Radiator arrangement for the front of a motor vehicle

An air supply channel for a charging air intercooler of an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine arranged in the rear of a vehicle, in which the air supply channel is arranged within the fender area of the vehicle and includes an air inlet and an air discharge opening; the channel includes a tubular element which is constructed trumpet-shaped and is retained in the wheel casing above the rear wheel; at its air inlet side, the channel is connected with an inlet connection fixed at the body by way of a connecting sleeve and at its air discharge side with the charging air intercooler.

Air inlet channel for a charging air intercooler

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Ditzingen, Germany

Anton Reichel