Patent ID: 6601873
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
Motor vehicle with a supporting structure provided at at least one end of a safety passenger compartment with a crumple zone and two laterally located wheel arches in each of which a wheel is located whereby, between the safety passenger compartment and a rolling circumference of the two wheels associated with the crumple zone in a straight-ahead position, a deflecting surface running diagonally to a central lengthwise axis of the motor vehicle is provided for the associated wheel, said deflecting surface being adapted to deflect the wheel that is operably moved against the deflecting surface by a crash-produced deformation of the crumple zone past the end of the passenger compartment,wherein the deflecting surfaces are deflecting ramps directed diagonally downward, said deflecting ramps being adapted to lower the wheels, upon the collapse of the crumple zone, below a floor of the motor vehicle in a direction of the passenger compartment.