International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC

Brian M Millard

Anthony D Sutton

Randall L Schreiber

A cab body mounting ( ) in a vehicle has a frame-side bracket ( ) attached to a chassis frame side rail ( ) and a body-side bracket ( ) attached to a cab body rail ( ). An elastomeric bushing ( ) and a fastener ( ) associate brackets so as to allow limited motion between them accompanied by bushing deformation. Bracket ( ) has an upright wall ( ) that is spaced a distance from an end ( E) of rail ( ). A sufficiently large relative acceleration of the body on the frame, such as during a frontal impact, will cause an edge portion of bracket ( ) to abut wall ( ), which arrests further movement of the bracket in the fore-aft direction, and thereby shares the loading that is being imposed on the mounting due to the acceleration force. This occurs before the stress in the shank of fastener ( ) reaches the characteristic maximum allowable shearing stress for the fastener material.

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