Patent ID: 7249797

Claim:
Rearward body structure of a motor vehicle, having a vehicle body shell cutout for a tailgate attached to the body structure, which body structure has a roof junction assembly in which a lateral roof side member, a transversely extending roof frame with a hinge connection for the tailgate and a rear column converge, the roof side member, the roof frame and the column respectively having a sheet metal shell construction with at least an exterior wall and an interior wall, said roof junction assembly further having an interior side part with a roof side member extension, a roof frame extension, and a column extension, which roof side member extension and column extension each form the respective interior wall, on which roof frame extension a hinge reinforcement of the hinge connection is fastened, wherein the roof frame extension of the interior side part forms a section of the exterior wall of the transversely extending roof frame, wherein the hinge reinforcement is fastened to an interior surface of the roof frame extension, and wherein an interior roof frame part forms the interior wall of the roof frame.