US 12,409,894 B2
Front pillar structure for a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle
Bartlomiej Albinski, Freising (DE); Alexander Boeck, Munich (DE); Nermin Kecalevic, Markt Schwaben (DE); Juergen Leschhorn, Geltendorf (DE); and Marco Reisboeck, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/011,669
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/065278
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/008147, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 118 018.7 (DE), filed on Jul. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0249750 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 25/04 (2006.01); B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B62D 25/02 (2006.01); B62D 27/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 25/04 (2013.01) [B62D 21/152 (2013.01); B62D 25/025 (2013.01); B62D 27/023 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A front pillar structure for a motor vehicle, wherein the front pillar structure is manufactured in a shell type of construction, the front pillar structure comprising:
a supporting carrier which extends from a wheelhouse of the motor vehicle as far as a side sill of the front pillar structure, and
an outer shell which is connected to an outer side of the supporting carrier, wherein:
the side sill comprises a profile part which has a load-absorbing region which is shaped in a transverse direction of the front pillar structure,
the outer shell overlaps the load-absorbing region in a vertical direction of the front pillar structure and is connected to the profile part below an apex of the load-absorbing region,
a portion of the supporting carrier overlaps the apex of the load-absorbing region in the vertical direction of the front pillar structure,
the outer shell is connected to the portion of the supporting carrier in a region of the apex, and
the front pillar structure is covered toward an outside of the motor vehicle by an outer paneling part that also covers the outer shell.