Patent ID: 6988744

Claim:
A rollover protection device for passengers of a vehicle, the vehicle including a body and a lateral bulkhead, said device comprising: a structural unit adapted to be mounted on one side of a lateral bulkhead of a vehicle, said structural unit comprising: at least one extendible rollover bar; a module beam being connectable in a force transmitting fashion with the lateral bulkhead and the vehicle body, said module beam extending crosswise to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle in an upper region of the lateral bulkhead; and at least one force transmission member containing said at least one rollover bar, said at least one force transmission member supporting said module beam at a vehicle body bottom, said at least one force transmission member comprising a cassette mounted to said module beam, to said lateral bulkhead, and to the vehicle body bottom; wherein said cassette is fabricated from a fiber composite plastic material with a U-shaped cross-section comprising opposite legs, each of said legs comprising a fixation flange, said U-shaped cross section continuously extending from said module beam to the vehicle body bottom, said at least one force transmission member secured to the lateral bulkhead via said fixation flanges; wherein the U-shaped cross section includes a rear wall interconnecting opposite corner sections and legs extending from the corner sections, a wall thickness of said leg portions and said corner sections of the U-shaped cross-section greater than a thickness of said rear wall.