US 12,291,268 B2
Body for a passenger car and passenger car
Martin Einwang, Freising (DE); Andre Koch, Hoehenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn (DE); and Lorenz Kriegler, Rottenegg (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/925,350
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 20, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/060150
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/233618, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 113 690.0 (DE), filed on May 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0234643 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B62D 25/02 (2006.01); B62D 25/04 (2006.01); B62D 25/08 (2006.01); B62D 27/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 21/152 (2013.01) [B62D 25/025 (2013.01); B62D 25/04 (2013.01); B62D 25/08 (2013.01); B62D 27/023 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A body for a passenger motor vehicle, comprising:
a shell structure which is arranged behind a wheel housing for a front wheel of the passenger motor vehicle, the shell structure comprising:
a transverse member that extends on an outer side of a longitudinal member of the shell structure in front of a front end wall of the shell structure in a transverse vehicle direction, wherein:
the transverse member has a catch element configured to catch a rim of the front wheel which is displaced backward in a longitudinal vehicle direction as a result of an accident, which rim turns inward in a backward direction toward a vehicle center;
an A-pillar is arranged behind the catch element in the longitudinal vehicle direction;
a lateral sill is arranged behind the catch element in the longitudinal vehicle direction;
a support element is arranged in the A-pillar via which the catch element, which is displaced backward in the longitudinal vehicle direction as a result of the rim being caught as a result of an accident, is supportable, and thereby the rim which is displaced backward in the longitudinal vehicle direction as a result of the accident is supportable on the lateral sill in a backward direction in the longitudinal vehicle direction; and
the transverse member comprises a front shell element and a rear shell element which are connected to one another to form a hollow space, wherein a reinforcing element is arranged in the hollow space and extends from the catch element in the transverse vehicle direction toward the vehicle center.