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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2021
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Riad Athmani, Munich, DE;
Alexander Boeck, Munich, DE;
Michael Hainzinger, Volkenschwand, DE;
Johannes Hasselbach, Kissing, DE;
Nermin Kecalevic, Markt Schwaben, DE;
Juergen Leschhorn, Geltendorf, DE;
Jyrki Majamaeki, Dorfen, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A body structure for a motor vehicle includes two inner sills having an undulating cross section, a floor panel arranged in the transverse direction of the vehicle between the inner sills, and two funnel-shaped force-introducing elements which are connected in respective front sill regions to the inner sills and widen in a funnel-shaped manner transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and, behind respective front wheelhouse regions, are supported on the rear side by their respective widened end region on a bulkhead of the body structure. A motor vehicle includes a body structure of this kind.