Patent ID: 6056351
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: B60J,B62D

Abstract:
Body structure for a motor vehicle comprising:at least one movable vehicle body part which is arranged along an impact load direction,stationary vehicle body sections which flank the movable vehicle body part approximately in alignment, in the impact load direction, in front of and behind the moveable body part,the at least one movable vehicle body part and the flanking stationary vehicle body sections each being constructed of an outer shell and an inner shell which are aligned in the impact load direction,wherein the outer shell of the movable body part is designed to be resistant to deformation and the inner shell of the movable body part is designed, at least in sections, to be more deformable in the impact load direction than said outer shell of the movable body part, andwherein, in at least one flanking vehicle body section, in a correspondingly inverse manner, the outer shell of the flanking body section is constructed to be more deformable at least in sections than the inner shell of the flanking body section.