Patent ID: 6299237
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
A bodyshell of a motor vehicle, comprising:a front-end structure which has lower front-end longitudinal members and upper longitudinal members which are adjoined in each case by a spring-strut bracket and which run into lateral A-pillars which are downwardly connected to lateral longitudinal sills of a passenger cell of the motor vehicle; andrespective composite strut arrangements provided on both sides of the vehicle, each one of said arrangements having an end including a connecting flange, each one of said arrangements extending obliquely downwards in the vertical direction of the vehicle and rearwards in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle between the associated upper longitudinal member and at least one of the associated lateral longitudinal sill and A-pillar, said connecting flange connected to one of the longitudinal sill and A-pillar to absorb frontal impact loads.