US 12,304,263 B2
Motor vehicle having a suspension strut
Helmut Gottmann, Hohenthann / Schmatzhausen (DE); Juergen Schippan, Assling (DE); and Tatjana Schoierer, Haimhausen (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/558,815
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/060952
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 3, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/242989, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 113 350.5 (DE), filed on May 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0239147 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. B60G 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60G 13/003 (2013.01) [B60G 2204/128 (2013.01); B60G 2204/4404 (2013.01); B60G 2206/8207 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A motor vehicle, comprising:
a bodywork element of a body of the motor vehicle;
a suspension strut having an upper end region; and
a holder configured for the upper end region of the suspension strut, the holder fastening the suspension strut to the body, and
wherein the holder is releasably attached to the bodywork element of the body that extends substantially in parallel with a longitudinal extent of the suspension strut in a planar attachment region,
wherein the planar bodywork element is composed of a sheet metal component which, in a screw-on region, is stiffened by a sheet metal reinforcement plate, and
wherein the sheet metal component and the sheet metal reinforcement plate have at least one common flange bearing against one another and are connected to one another in a planar manner.