US 6,981,736 B2
Floor-supporting configuration in motor vehicles
Klaus-Dieter Morsch, Braunschweig (Germany); and Jürgen Hillmann, Gifhorn (Germany)
Assigned to Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg (Germany)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/39,482.
Application 11/039482 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP03/07034, filed on Jul. 02, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 102 32 841 (DE), filed on Jul. 19, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2005/0140179 A1, Jun. 30, 2005
Int. Cl. B60R 27/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 296—193.07 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle body configuration, comprising:
a passenger cell including a floor panel closing off said passenger cell at a bottom thereof;
a vehicle front part adjacent said passenger cell;
two sills extending alongside said passenger cell;
two longitudinal members disposed between said two sills and extending from said vehicle front part rearward under said floor panel;
a floor-supporting configuration including a front floor crossmember with an end panel, said front floor crossmember being fixedly connected to said two sills and extending, between said two sills, transversely with respect to a longitudinal vehicle axis;
each of said longitudinal members butting, with a first profile cross section, against said end panel of said front floor crossmember;
each of said longitudinal members extending, offset in height, with a second profile cross section smaller than the first profile cross section, under said floor panel; and
said floor supporting configuration including web plates, said sills having cutouts formed therein, said front floor crossmember being fixed, via said web plates, on said sills having said cutouts.