Patent ID: 8256830
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A dashboard support of a motor vehicle, comprising: a cross member having at least two axial profile sections of different cross-sectional configuration; a flange plate coupling the profile sections to one another; and plural support arms secured to the cross member and made of profile elements, one of the support arms being a transmission tunnel support arm arranged substantially in midsection on the cross member or the flange plate, said transmission tunnel support arm being made of two sections of U-shaped cross section, with one of the two sections being shorter than the other one of the two sections, wherein another one of the support arms is a steering column support arm which is made of a section having U-shaped configuration defined by legs which have at least one area secured in a prefabricated transverse slot of one of the profile sections arranged on a driver side.