Patent ID: 6209914
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
A body shell for a passenger car, comprising two side members between which a main floor extends, which main floor is provided with an engine transmission support for fastening a transmission case, and a transmission case-drive shaft accommodatable tunnel, the side members being spaced from each other behind a front end area of the car and having member sections which diverge with respect to a vehicle center axis,wherein, between the member sections and the engine transmission support, connection arms are operatively arranged as tension and pressure cross members and are trapezoidal profile pieces which are placed on and welded to the main floor and to the member sections, with a narrower side of the pieces being fastened to the side member sections, and the connection arms being provided with projecting reinforcing ribs which extend approximately in the shape of a fan from the member sections toward the outside of the body shell.