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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2002
Hans-Georg Bartesch, Böblingen, DE;
Karl-Heinz Baumann, Bondorf, DE;
Ulrich Bruhnke, Ehningen, DE;
Rainer Justen, Altdorf, DE;
Jürgen Kohler, Aidlingen, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A load-bearing structure for motor vehicles has a load-bearing floor of lightweight construction merging at its front in a footwell region into an upwardly projecting end wall. The structure also has a front-end structure which forms a crumple zone, is supported in the region of the end wall, and includes lightweight structural panels running in the longitudinal and transverse directions of the vehicle. The footwell region is bounded laterally and at the top by a panel arrangement of lightweight construction which, together with the floor and the end wall, forms a supporting box for the front-end structure.