Patent ID: 9567010
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B60R,B62D

Claim:
1. A motor vehicle body, comprising: a longitudinal beam; a bumper cross member, which is fixed to one end of the longitudinal beam, wherein an end section of the bumper cross member configured as a closed or open hollow profile element protrudes over the longitudinal beam in a transverse direction; a cantilever beam disposed directly on the longitudinal beam, the cantilever beam extending obliquely forward from the longitudinal beam into a space between a wheel mount and the end section of the bumper cross member, and a collision-resistant profile reinforcement provided at least in some regions in the hollow profile element in the end section of the bumper cross member, wherein the cantilever beam and the end section of the bumper cross member are disposed so as to cooperate with each other such that in a frontal collision with small overlap the end section of the bumper cross member bends to impact the cantilever beam in a region where the profile reinforcement is located in the end section, and the profile reinforcement is configured to withstand the frontal collision with small overlap up to a predetermined collision energy such that the bumper cross member in the region where the profile reinforcement is located and cooperates with the cantilever beam is essentially not compressed to cause a transverse momentum on the motor vehicle body that reduces an overlap of collision partners in the frontal collision with small overlap thereby reducing collision energy that has to be absorbed by the motor vehicle body.