A vehicle including a vehicle body 32 comprises a rocker 12 fixed to an underbody 14. The rocker and the under body at least in part define a front wheel well 16 of the vehicle. A rim engagement member 20 is cantilevered to the underbody and extends into the wheel well. The rim engagement member snags a rim of a front wheel 34 of the vehicle and directs movement of the front wheel away from intrusion into a floor and/or dash of the vehicle in the event of an offset frontal impact. The rim engagement member may extend in a direction along the longitudinal axis and includes an inboard and outboard side, wherein a distal end tapers from the inboard side to the outboard side. Preferably, the underbody includes a torque box, on which the rim engagement member is fixed. The rim engagement member could be bolted to the underbody, or they could form a unibody structure.
Underbody mounted rim engagement member
2017-07-26
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR |
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