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

Jan Hogenmüller

Matthias Herntier

Claus-Dieter Unfried

Leszek Wrobel

Roland-Gerhard Stromsky

Marcos Garcia Garcia

Andreas Maya

Jürgen Metzler

Carsten Dreses

A crash support assembly is provided in the tunnel region of a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has at least one exhaust tract guided through a tunnel of the vehicle and seat cross members are disposed to the side of the tunnel. A crash support is held on the exhaust tract and is disposed such that it swings freely between the seat cross members. A crash support of this type permits the vehicle to be optimized with regard to the conditions of a pole crash with a low outlay on production and assembly.

Crash support in the tunnel region of a motor vehicle

A motor vehicle contains two A pillars, a front wall, a central tunnel and a front wall cross member. The front wall cross member has two side parts which are attached to the A pillars of the motor vehicle, and a middle part connecting these two side parts. The side parts are shaped in such a way that they are in at least partial contact with the front wall of the motor vehicle and are attached to the front wall there. The middle part is in at least partial contact with the central tunnel of the motor vehicle.

Motor vehicle with front wall cross member

A motor vehicle has a support structure that contains longitudinal members and a crossmember. It is important that the crossmember, at a front/rear end, is fixedly connected to tubular crash elements which run in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The tubular crash elements respectively engage in an associated longitudinal member and are fixed therein coaxially with respect to the longitudinal member via at least two supporting points spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

Support structure for a motor vehicle having longitudinal members and a crossmember

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Leonberg, Germany

Jan Hogenmüller