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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
May. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Gestamp Hardtech Ab, Lulea, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Gestamp Hardtech AB, Lulea, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 25/04 (2006.01); B23K 31/02 (2006.01); C22C 38/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 25/04 (2013.01); B23K 31/02 (2013.01); C22C 38/00 (2013.01); Y10T 428/12375 (2015.01);
Abstract
A B-pillar is shaped from a sheet blank () into a hat profile with a central flange (), two sides () and two side flanges (), and it has, over a portion of its length, a reinforcing sheet () that make the B-pillar have double sheets. The reinforcing sheet () extends out over the side flanges () over at least ¼ of its length and narrows down at both its ends so that it does not extend out over the side flanges over part of its length.