Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler Ag

Wolfgang Pedrotti

Wolfgang Seidl

Roland Herrmann

Kay Morschheuser

Stefan Kaiser

A truck has a driver's cab tiltably mounted above a drive train and coupled in an articulated fashion to a bottom chassis by a bearing. The drive train is attached to the chassis, and has a restraint system for the driver's cab. In the case of a head-on collision of the truck with an obstacle at the level of the driver's cab, the restraint system serves to absorb and deflect collision forces at the driver's cab. The restraint system includes a flexible coupling element that establishes a connection, which is resistant to tensile stress counter to the direction of travel, between the driver's cab and a front fixed part of the drive train located underneath it.

Truck comprising a retaining system for the cab in case of a collision

In a support structure for a commercial motor vehicle including two longitudinal frame members between which a drive unit including an internal combustion engine and a transmission is arranged and wherein the support structure has an independent wheel suspension for each of the vehicles front wheels, each with an upper A-arm and a lower A-arm mounted to the support structure for supporting the front wheels, a support unit is provided which, in front and behind a space for receiving the drive unit extends around the longitudinal frame members and is fastened to the longitudinal frame members and on which at least the lower A-arms are mounted.

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Ostifildern, Germany

Wolfgang Pedrotti