Patent ID: 11904946
Assignee: BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 10:
11. A pillar reinforcement, comprising:
a press-hardened shaped sheet-metal part of a motor vehicle bodyshell, wherein the part is for a B pillar of the motor vehicle, and has different sheet thicknesses and strengths,
wherein the part comprises an unhardened base region, or a base region which is hardened only to a small extent, a press-hardened center region, wherein the center region has a larger or smaller sheet thickness than the base region and has a higher strength than the base region, and a transition region between the base region and the center region, which, starting from the base region, has a sheet thickness transition zone, an intermediate zone, and a strength transition zone.