Patent ID: 6168228
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
Passenger compartment for a passenger car comprising: one B-column, respectively, on each side of a vehicle body, a side member, situated below each B-column, to which the B-column leads for increasing a transverse stiffness of the passenger compartment in the event of side impact loads, a transversely stiffening tube construction which is composed of two laterally exterior upright reinforcing tubes and a transversely extending tube-shaped stiffening element, an adjoining connection plate to which each upright reinforcing tube is linked and having a lower edge area supported on an exterior side of the side member, and an inwardly projecting supporting tube which extends from each reinforcing tube above the elevation of the side member, each supporting tube, in an area of the passenger compartment, being rigidly connected with the outer end of the transversely extending, tube-shaped stiffening element, wherein the stiffening element extends along a significant portion of its transverse course so that it is sunk in a transversely extending hollow space between a seat support and a floor plate.