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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1998
Filed:
May. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Josip Vlahovic, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Assignee:
Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG, Weissach, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
296205 ; 296 29 ;
Abstract
A support of a body structure of a vehicle is formed by hydraulic expansion of hollow blanks. In order to achieve that the support is adapted to the locally occurring loads, it is provided that, at least along a partial area of its longitudinal course, the support is composed of at least two form-lockingly connected, hydraulically expanded, mutually in parallel extending hollow profiles.