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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
May. 11, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Muhsin M. Hamdoon, Windsor, CA;
Marwan Ahmad Elbkaily, Canton, MI (US);
Yalla Abushawashi, Allen Park, MI (US);
Darrin Neil Wagner, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Edgar Edward Donabedian, Livonia, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle body assembly including a frame with an outrigger secured to the frame below a passenger compartment. The passenger compartment includes a plurality of pillars supporting a roof, a first rocker assembly and a second rocker assembly disposed on opposite sides of the passenger compartment. The outrigger is secured to the frame below the passenger compartment, inboard of the rocker assembly and outboard of the roof to protect the roof in side impact collisions. The outriggers transfer the side impact loads to the frame rails that are disposed inboard of the roof rails.