VEHICLE BODY Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering; passenger car bodies. SUBSTANCE: car body has wheel house connected with front vertical box-section pillar of body side which is connected with windshield frame, and side member with flange connected with floor side member and floor sill. Body has stiffening member connected with cross beam connecting left-hand and right-hand sides of body with lower side wall of wheel house and front vertical pillar of body side, outer and inner box-section member connected with load-bearing stiffening rib and with upper wall of wheel house and with windshield frame with forming of body vertical wall. Lower and upper side walls of wheel house are interconnected and connected with side member whose flange in central part is bent horizontally towards side of arch of vehicle front wheel. EFFECT: increased strength and rigidly of body in service, enhanced energy absorption at head collision with resulting improved passive safety of vehicle. 8 dwg