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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1991
Hitoshi Tsuruda, Kudamatsu, JP;
Morishige Hattori, Kudamatsu, JP;
Masato Okazaki, Kudamatsu, JP;
Hiroyuki Yamada, Kudamatsu, JP;
Kiyotaka Kikumoto, Kudamatsu, JP;
Takeyuki Watanabe, Kudamatsu, JP;
Ryoichi Takayama, Kumage, JP;
Sumio Okuno, Kudamatsu, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle body, such as, for example, a railway passenger vehicle body, which includes an external body sheeting formed of opposite sides and a roof and having an internal floor extending between the sides. The sides, above the level of the internal floor, and the roof each include a number of extruded metal plates forming the external body sheeting and integral ribs, extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, are provided on inner faces of the extruded metal plates. The extruded metal plates are welded together at weld lines extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body.