Patent ID: 6237989
Filing Date: 2001-05-29
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
A vehicle construction, comprising:a body with a base, a roof, and two longitudinal walls joining said base and said roof;plural wheels connected to said base,said base, roof and walls comprising sandwich panels that are joined to one another at their longitudinal edges forming a bending and torsion resisting tube,a thickness of the sandwich panel of said base being of the same order of magnitude as a thickness of at least one of (a) the sandwich panel of said roof and (b) the sandwich panels of the walls,each of said longitudinal walls comprises plural said sandwich panels that are joined to one another at lateral edges and joined to respective sandwich panels of said roof and said base at longitudinal edges; andseat rails fixed along said longitudinal walls and said base, each said seat rail being a closed section with an outside matched to a contour of the corresponding said longitudinal wall and base and a sloping inside.