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

Klaus Rieder

Mathias Fröschle

Manfred Appel

Karlheinz Keller

A motor vehicle door has a door body formed from a door inner part and a door outer panel fastened thereto. The door body has a shaft opening for a window shaft located inside the door body, and a shaft reinforcement fastened to the door inner part. The reinforcement extends below the shaft opening and supports the door outer panel via a downwardly bent flange of the door outer panel. A window seal for the shaft opening is received in a fastening groove formed by an upright longitudinal web of the shaft reinforcement and the downwardly bent flange.

Motor vehicle door

A door stopper for a motor vehicle door has a piston-cylinder unit arranged basically longitudinally inside the motor vehicle door. The unit is connected in a swiveling manner at a first end with the motor vehicle door and is able to interact at a second end with a stationary structural section of the motor vehicle. In order to ensure that the door stopper requires only a small installation space, the door stopper includes a multi-part lever mechanism, which transforms a swiveling motion of the motor vehicle door chiefly into a back and forth thrusting motion, upon door opening or closing, on the piston-cylinder unit. A first lever of the lever mechanism can be guided out of the motor vehicle door and can be connected with the stationary structural section on a first swiveling axis.

Door stopper for a motor vehicle door and motor vehicle door for a motor vehicle with a door stopper of this type

A motor vehicle door has a lateral impact protection device with a lateral impact beam and a fastening device to connect the lateral impact beam to a door part. The fastening device has a fastening bracket being a cast part and is connected to the door part. The fastening bracket has a fork-shaped seat for receiving the lateral impact beam. A holding bolt passes through the lateral impact beam and the fork-shaped seat. The fork-shaped seat contains at least two inner surfaces which face the lateral impact beam and lie opposite one another with a spacing and a fork bottom. For ease of production, the fork-shaped seat widens with its inner surfaces in its direction pointing away from the fork bottom. The inner surfaces are configured as unfinished cast surfaces, and the lateral impact beam has a trapezoidal cross section adapted to the widening seat.

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Weissach-Flacht, Germany

Klaus Rieder