VEHICLE BODY COMPOSED OF AT LEAST TWO PREFABRICATED SUBASSEMBLIES, AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF

• Main Authors: SCHMIDT, MARIO, PATBERG, LOTHAR
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 07.07.2010
• Subjects: LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVINGMATERIAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PUNCHING METAL; TRAILERS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS ORPROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL

A motor vehicle body can be manufactured economically and assembled without any problem from prefabricated modules. This is resolved in that the modules are connected to one another in a non-detachable manner in a joint zone, such that a sheet of the one module coming into contact in the joint zone on a sheet section of another module, are joined to one another in a joining process, in which at least one of the sheet sections has been cold-formed, with positive and/or non-positive fit, and in that in at least one of the modules an access channel is formed, extending at least in sections along the joint zone and accessible from outside for introduction of a joining tool.