Daimler-benz Ag

Manfred Flaig

Wolfgang Schwede

Bernd Christoph

Rolf Maier

Hans-Jurgen Stumpe

Heinrich Weber

A self-supporting motor-vehicle body includes outer lateral side members (sills) on a substructure in the region of the passenger cell, and front and rear side members which are angularly offset relative to a longitudinal center axis of the vehicle and respectively located at a vehicle forward structure and at a vehicle rearward structure. The front and rear side members adjoin the lateral side members via a bent portion. In order to provide stiffening of the body, struts are secured to the substructure of the body so as each to be fastened at one end to a lateral side member, and directed towards a middle region of the vehicle with their other end fastened once again to the substructure of the body. A front strut is guided from each of the two lateral side members into the vehicle forward structure and/or a rear strut is guided from each of the two lateral side members into the vehicle rearward structure, with each strut preferably being aligned at an angle of approximately 45.degree. relative to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, and extending along the substructure at least into the middle region of the vehicle.

Self-supporting motor-vehicle

A motor vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine which includes an electrical accumulator arranged in the engine space and an air pump for blowing-in air during the after-treatment of the engine gases; the accumulator is encapsulated on all sides by a protective housing leaving an intermediate air space with respect to the accumulator housing while two line connections are provided at the protective housing which are as far away from one another as possible in the flow direction; one line connection is connected with the suction side of the air pump while the other line connection is operatively connected with a protected place in the vehicle which during operation is at least approximately at the outside temperature.

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Ostfildern, Germany

Manfred Flaig