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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2000
Jörg Sikorski, Stuttgart, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A fastening arrangement of a door sill on the floor panel of a motor vehicle provides a welded connection between a welding flange on a longitudinal side of the door sill and an edge zone of the floor panel extending laterally next thereto. The welded connection, being distributed along the length of the door sill, has at least one run of spot welds. The butt joint between the welding flange of the door sill and the opposite edge zone of the floor panel is bridged in the rearward length area by a tension member or lug extending transversely thereto. The tension member is fastened by one end on the door sill and by of the other end on the adjacent area of the floor panel.