Volvo Car Corporation

Emil Claesson

Johan Eklund

Jens Raine

Domenico Macri

Martin Granlund

Kaldon Kalasho

Per Zachrison

Robin Larsson

Anders Sandahl

Patrik Ljungbäck

Patrik Ulf Daniel Ljungbäck

Anders Sandahi

A siderail member for a subframe assembly of a vehicle, including: an elongate body, wherein the elongate body includes a hollow extruded structure including an inboard wall, an outboard wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and one or more internal walls. Optionally, the bottom wall has a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the top wall. Optionally, the outboard wall has a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the inboard wall. Optionally, the one or more internal walls include a top internal wall and a bottom internal wall forming a plurality of horizontally-disposed cells within an interior of the elongate body. The bottom internal wall has a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the top internal wall. The hollow extruded structure is manufactured from an aluminum material. Optionally, the top wall of the hollow extruded structure defines a flexure recess.

Subframe assembly for a vehicle utilizing scaleable multi-cell extruded siderail members

A support extrusion for a subframe structure of a vehicle and methods of fabricating the same. In one example, a support extrusion can comprise a multicell structure that facilitates coupling the support extrusion with a rear crossmember of the subframe structure. The multicell structure can comprise a front cell column and a rear cell column that intervenes between the front cell column and the rear crossmember in a longitudinal direction of the subframe structure. The front cell column can comprise a trigger that facilitates plastically deforming the front cell column downward in a vertical direction of the subframe structure when subjected to impact forces of a frontal crash.

Deformable rear crossmembers with special extrusion section design for bending down in crash loadcases

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Gothenburg, Sweden

Emil Claesson