Patent ID: 7766418

Claim:
A mounting structure for front end modules of passenger cars or small trucks, said mounting structure having a frame-shaped structure that surrounds an air cooled pass-through area and includes an upper crossmember, a lower crossmember and sidemembers that connect said upper and lower crossmembers, whereby the upper crossmember is designed as a profile carrier with a closed wall for receiving a hood lock and wherein said wall forms a sealing rib that borders on the air cooled pass-through area for an air-blocking connection to a radiator component, wherein the upper crossmember is strutted using a lattice structure that is adjacent to the sealing rib and protrudes into the air cooled pass-through area, wherein the lattice structure consists of a bar that runs at a distance from the sealing rib of the upper crossmember and of interim bars that connect this bar with the sealing rib, and wherein lattice openings formed in said lattice structure form a part of the air cooled pass-through area with their entire opening area.