Patent ID: 6619663
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: B60G,B62D

Abstract:
Body structure for a motor vehicle having a forward spring strut receiving device in a dome-shaped sheet metal body part of a wheel house, which forms an upper spring strut support,wherein on an open forward edge of the sheet metal body part of the spring strut receiving device in a driving direction between a lower side member support of a vehicle platform and a hood support vertically offset thereto, a reinforcing console is arranged which extends approximately vertically and in a transverse direction of the vehicle between the side member support and hood support and, together with the sheet metal body part, forms a closed hollow support profile of a polygonal cross-section; wherein the reinforcing console has a U-profile-shaped construction and a web pointing in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle with a leg extending in the transverse direction of the vehicle; and wherein the reinforcing console has an approximately triangular construction and, in an installed position, is connected by a first approximately vertical edge section of the leg aligned transversely with respect to the vehicle on the sheet metal body part and by a second edge section adjoining at an angle, with a supporting surface of the sheet metal body part for supporting a spring strut, and the web bent with respect to the leg is connected with an edge bent with respect to the supporting surface of the sheet metal body part while forming a hollow space.