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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2003
Oliver Stoffels, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Thomas Meier, Rheinstetten, DE;
Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
This body structure is suitable for a motor vehicle, especially for a passenger car, which is provided with deformation elements of metal, which extend at a distance from the longitudinal median plane of the vehicle. When viewed in the height direction of the vehicle, these deformation elements have several deformation hollow supports, which are one above the other and extend, for example, between a front region and a dimensionally stable passenger compartment. To optimize the body structure, each deformation element has a first, lower deformation hollow support, a second, middle deformation hollow support and a third, upper deformation hollow support, the deformation hollow supports connecting relatively short cross-members and being connected through the agency of a mounting plate with a transverse wall of the passenger compartment in their end region facing the front region.