US 11,926,364 B2
Frame for a purpose-built vehicle
Nam Ho Kim, Gwangmyeong-si (KR); Won Hae Lee, Seoul (KR); Byung Joo Chung, Gunpo-si (KR); Seung Hak Lee, Asan-si (KR); and Min Seok Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/976,336.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0022817 (KR), filed on Feb. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0264744 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 21/12 (2006.01); B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B62D 7/02 (2006.01); B62D 21/18 (2006.01); B62D 27/02 (2006.01); B62D 27/06 (2006.01); B62D 63/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 21/12 (2013.01) [B62D 21/152 (2013.01); B60Y 2304/05 (2013.01); B62D 7/023 (2013.01); B62D 21/18 (2013.01); B62D 27/023 (2013.01); B62D 27/06 (2013.01); B62D 27/065 (2013.01); B62D 63/025 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A frame for a purpose-built vehicle (PBV), the frame comprising:
a front part frame positioned at a front side of a vehicle;
a rear part frame positioned at a rear side of the vehicle; and
a center part frame having a rectangular planar shape and coupled between the front part frame and the rear part frame,
wherein protruding coupling parts are respectively provided integrally with ends of the front and rear part frames facing the center part frame and protrude to overlap the center part frame,
wherein side members each having a quadrangular cross-section are provided at two opposite sides of the center part frame, and
wherein the protruding coupling parts each have
an open cross-section that surrounds a part of a transverse section of the center part frame,
an L-shaped cross-section that surrounds one edge of the quadrangular cross-section of a respective one of the side members, and
a cross-sectional shape that surrounds one edge of the quadrangular cross-section of the respective one of the side members positioned outside a vehicle body.