Westfalia-Automotive Gmbh

Sergei Stachurski

Kay Angermann

Martin Wyrwich

Arne Kuhlen

A carrier arrangement for a rear end of a vehicle, forms a component of a load carrier which can be detachably fastened to the vehicle and projects in front of the rear end of the vehicle during use or forms a component of a coupling device that can be fastened to a rear end of a body of the vehicle, wherein, in the case of the load carrier (), the carrier arrangement is provided for applying a load and comprises, in the case of the coupling device, a holder for a trailer coupling for attaching a trailer to the vehicle or for a load carrier coupling part for detachably coupling a load carrier to the vehicle. The carrier arrangement has at least one support profile which has a support profile circumferential wall with support profile circumferential wall sections arranged at an angle to each other and/or extend in a curved manner about the longitudinal axis of the support profile and delimit an interior space of the support profile with respect to the longitudinal axis on the circumference. The support profile is stiffened at least along a part of its longitudinal axis in a reinforcement section by a reinforcement profile which comprises reinforcement profile wall sections arranged at an angle to each other and/or extend in a curved manner about a reinforcement profile longitudinal axis of the reinforcement profile, and is supported on the support profile circumferential wall of the support profile in order to reinforce the support profile, wherein the at least one reinforcement profile engages into the interior space of the support profile or the support profile engages into a reinforcement profile interior space of the reinforcement profile which is delimited by the reinforcement profile wall sections in a circumferential angle range of more than 180&#xb0; extending about the longitudinal axis of the support profile.

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Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Germany

Sergei Stachurski