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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2002
Arno Roehringer, Ditzingen, DE;
Alfred Schnabel, Althengstett, DE;
Rodolfo Schoeneburg, Hechingen, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A front end of a motor vehicle, e.g., a passenger vehicle, having two longitudinal members, extending essentially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and an integral member on which a drive unit of the motor vehicle is mounted. The integral member has, on each side of the vehicle, a base member which extends essentially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and is fastened in each case by a front supporting pillar and by a rear supporting pillar to one of the longitudinal members. Each longitudinal member being of deformable configuration in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle at least between the supporting pillars. In order to improve the deformation behavior of the front end, each base member is fastened exclusively via its front supporting pillar and its rear supporting pillar at the bottom to associated longitudinal members. Each base member is configured such that it has greater stiffness in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle than the respectively associated longitudinal member. The supporting pillars are configured and connected to the associated longitudinal member and/or to the associated base member such that they pivot about pivot axes extending essentially transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, during a relative displacement between the base member and longitudinal member in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.