Vehicle body for a motor vehicle

• US 8,033,593 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2009
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Paul, Joachim, Ramin, Wolfgang, Posch, Tobias
• Primary Examiner(s): LYJAK, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US12/471,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20100026044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: 296/180.1, 296/180.2, 296/180.3, 296/180.4, 296/180.5
• US Class Current: 296/180.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2619 built in the vehicle body
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 35/007 Rear spoilers B62D35/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 37/02 by aerodynamic means

Abstract

In a rear end of the vehicle body, an assembly carrier which is arranged in the vehicle transverse direction is inserted between inner body-side side parts of the vehicle rear end. The assembly carrier holds pre-assemblable components and to which assembly carrier is fastened a rear-end trim panel and which assembly carrier is fixedly connected to the two inner side parts by screw devices and forms a stiffening body cross member.

Claims

1. A vehicle body for a motor vehicle, comprising:

a setting out mechanism;

a spoiler being retracted and deployed by said setting-out mechanism;

a pivotable rear lid;

fastening devices;

a vehicle rear end having body-side inner side parts disposed so as to be spaced apart from one another, and an outer rear-end trim panel which, with said body-side inner side parts, surrounds a holding space for a rear-mounted engine, said holding space is closed off by said pivotable rear lid which is adjoined by said spoiler; and

an assembly carrier disposed in a vehicle transverse direction and inserted between said two inner body-side side parts of said vehicle rear end, said assembly carrier holding pre-assemblable components and can be connected to said outer rear-end trim panel, said assembly carrier is fixedly connected to said two inner side parts by said fastening devices, and said assembly carrier forming a stiffening body cross member, said assembly carrier further connected to said outer rear-end trim panel.

2. The vehicle body according to claim 1, wherein said assembly carrier has, on its upper and lower sides and on its end sides, contact surfaces for the pre-assemblable components.

3. The vehicle body according to claim 1,

wherein said assembly carrier has free ends with bores formed therein, said bores are disposed spaced apart from one another, and provided for said fastening devices for fastening to said body-side inner side parts of the vehicle body;

and

further comprising in each case one centering pin for providing positional fixing on said body-side inner side parts disposed between said bores.

4. The vehicle body according to claim 1, wherein said assembly carrier has a horizontally aligned end-side contact surface which is directed toward said outer rear-end trim panel and to which a corresponding edge of said outer rear-end trim panel can be connected by fastening means, and said end-side contact surface having fastening bores formed therein.

5. The vehicle body according to claim 1, further comprising a pre-assemblable drive motor with drive shafts, said assembly carrier has, on an underside contact surface and in a vehicle longitudinal central plane, said pre-assemblable drive motor with said drive shafts, which extend to both sides, for said setting-out mechanism of said spoiler.

6. The vehicle body according to claim 3, further comprising a pre-assemblable lock for said pivotable rear lid, said pre-assemblable lock disposed on a rear side on a contact surface of said assembly carrier—

as viewed in relation to a direction of travel.

7. The vehicle body according to claim 6, further comprising an actuating element with a Bowden cable for said pre-assemblable lock of said pivotable rear lid, said actuating element with said Bowden cable is disposed on a upper-side contact surface of said assembly carrier, close to one of said free ends of said assembly carrier.

8. The vehicle body according to claim 1,

wherein said setting-out mechanism is one of a plurality of setting-out mechanisms for said spoiler and are disposed on said assembly carrier at both sides of a vehicle longitudinal central plane;

and

further comprising an activation module for a front closing part—

in relation to the direction of travel—

is disposed on one side.

9. The vehicle body according to claim 1, wherein:

said spoiler has a lower part and an upper shell, said lower part is fastened to said upper shell;

said assembly carrier has a plurality of openings formed therein; and

said setting-out mechanism is one of a plurality setting-out mechanisms that project partially through said openings in said assembly carrier and are connected to said lower part of said spoiler.

10. The vehicle body according to claim 1, wherein said assembly carrier is composed of a cast aluminum part and is formed, in cross section, with a plurality of steps and has, in a central region, a plurality of transversely running hollow ribs which are disposed on an upper step of said steps so as to delimit said upper step laterally.

11. The vehicle body according to claim 1,

further comprising a retaining strip;

and

wherein said outer rear-end trim panel is connected to said assembly carrier over one longitudinal region and is connected, over an adjoining further longitudinal region, by means of said retaining strip to a lamp body for a rear-end lamp of an automobile, said lamp body is held on said body-side inner side parts to which said assembly carrier can be fastened.