US 12,441,411 B2
Body structure for a motor vehicle
Riad Athmani, Munich (DE); Alexander Boeck, Munich (DE); Michael Hainzinger, Volkenschwand (DE); Johannes Hasselbach, Kissing (DE); Nermin Kecalevic, Markt Schwaben (DE); Juergen Leschhorn, Geltendorf (DE); and Jyrki Majamaeki, Dorfen (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/019,106
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 2, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/068367
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 1, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/033768, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 17, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 121 094.9 (DE), filed on Aug. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0312018 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 25/02 (2006.01); B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B62D 25/20 (2006.01); B62D 27/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 25/2036 (2013.01) [B62D 21/15 (2013.01); B62D 25/025 (2013.01); B62D 25/2018 (2013.01); B62D 27/023 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A body structure for a motor vehicle, comprising:
two inner sills having an undulating cross section;
a floor panel arranged in a transverse direction of the vehicle between the two inner sills;
two funnel-shaped force introduction elements which are connected in respective front sill regions to the two inner sills and widen in a funnel-shaped manner and, behind respective front wheelhouse regions, are supported by their respective widened end region on a rear side of a bulkhead of the body structure, wherein
the funnel-shaped force introduction elements widen in a transverse and vertical direction with respect to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.