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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2003
Joseph Edward Abramczyk, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Karthik Chitoor, Canton, MI (US);
Paul Culbertson, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Zheng James Peng, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Sandeep Kumar Gupta, West Bloomfied, MI (US);
Eric Layton Stratten, Plymouth, MI (US);
Herbert Yang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An automobile includes a door, inner and outer rocker panels, and a floor pan joined to the inner rocker panel. A structural frame extends under the body. A frame standoff member is mounted to the inner rocker panel and extends inboard to a frame rail. The frame standoff member is separated from the frame rail by a clearance gap. Once the gap is closed due to lateral deformation of the door, rocker panels, and floor pan, the frame standoff member will resist further deformation of the door and rocker panels without dynamically coupling the door or rocker panels to the frame rail during normal operation of the vehicle.