Patent ID: 6315351
Filing Date: 2001-11-13
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
A space frame for a truck cabin comprising modular sections, wherein:two side sections, left and right, each comprising a door ring frame, a vertical reinforcement attached to a back vertical portion of the door ring frame, and a second reinforcement attached to lower back portion of the vertical reinforcement;a floor section comprising a rear transversal platform; a left and a right lower side platform, a left and a right intermediate side platform, a left and a right upper side platform, a floor set supported by the platforms,wherein the rear transversal platform is joined at its left and right ends to the left and right lower side platforms, respectively, each lower side platform is further joined to the side-respective intermediate side platform, each intermediate platform is further joined to the side-respective upper side platform; andwherein the floor set comprises a back central floor, a left side floor, a right side floor, and a transmission cover,a back section comprising horizontal quarter panel reinforcements at the lower left, the upper left, the lower right, and the upper right thereof, a vertical left section reinforcement, a right vertical reinforcement, a left plate, and a right plate,wherein the horizontal quarter panel reinforcements each attach respectively to the left and right side section vertical reinforcements and to the respective back section vertical reinforcements, left and right, andwherein the plates attach to the lower portions of the back section vertical reinforcements and to the rear transversal platform of the floor section;an upper section comprising a header, a right header beam, a left header beam, a back beam, a left roof beam, a right roof beam, and a transverse beam,wherein the ends of the left and right header beams each join the respective ends of both the header beam and the back beam so as to create the horizontal dimensions of a space frame interior,wherein the left roof beam and the right roof beam each join both the header beam and the back beam at points central from the ends of the header and back beams, andwherein the transverse beam joins both the left and right side header beams at points central from the ends of the left and right side header beams;a front section comprising a cowl, a cowl reinforcement, a left post, a right post,wherein the cowl and the cowl reinforcement are joined together to create a firewall,wherein the front section is joined to the front bearings of the floor section and,wherein the left and right posts are joined to the left and right ends, respectively, of the cowl reinforcement, and at their upper ends, to the left and right ends, respectively, of the roof's header.