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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2000
Hans-Georg Bartesch, Böblingen, DE;
Kark-Heinz Baumann, Bondorf, DE;
Ulrich Bruhnke, Ehningen, DE;
Rainer Justen, Sindelfingen, DE;
Jürgen Kohler, Aidlingen, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a motor vehicle with a supporting structure provided at one end of a safety passenger compartment with a crumple zone and two wheel arches located in the vicinity of the crumple zone on the sides. A wheel is located in each respective wheel arch held by wheel guide members. A deflecting area extends diagonally to a central lengthwise axis of the motor vehicle for the associated wheel, between the safety passenger compartment and the rolling circumference of the two wheels in the straight-ahead position of the deflecting surface for the associated wheel against which the wheel moved by the crash-produced deformation of the crumple zone against the deflecting surface is deflected past the end of the safety passenger compartment. The deflecting surfaces are diagonally downwardly directed deflecting ramps by which the wheels are directed toward the safety passenger compartment and below the floor of the motor vehicle as the crumple zone collapses.