Patent ID: 7438351
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A motor vehicle structural element of the type comprising a cross-member and, at at least one end of the cross-member, a first nut presenting a tapped bore for receiving a screw for fastening the cross-member to an upright of the vehicle, an axis of the bore being substantially parallel to a director line of the cross-member, the element comprising a first cage for preventing the nut from turning about the axis of its tapped bore, the first cage being mounted at said end of the cross-member, and the nut being free to move in the first cage in translation substantially perpendicularly to the axis of its bore, and a spacer device for co-operating with the screw to abut against the end of the cross-member and against the upright along the director line of the cross-member.