The vehicle body comprises a stiff inner shell to which are affixed one or more layers of panels with overlapping edges. The inside face of each panel is of impact-resistant material. The outer face is any relatively thin material stiff enough to present a smooth surface and capable of being painted. The space between inner and outer faces is filled with any lightweight crush-resistant material preferably corrugated cardboard. In the event of damage to the cardboard, individual panels can be removed and replaced.
A car body, more especially for an electric vehicle, is proposed as an integrated metal and plastics material component which includes a shell-like body formed from a highly impact-resistant plastics material and provided with an integrated metal chassis, such a body being suitable for the mounting thereon of interchangeable attachment assemblies which are designed in accordance with the intended use of the vehicle. In such an arrangement, the body has a continuous closed base, apart from an opening in its front region; the metal chassis has a means whereby the body may be secured to a front wheel arrangement.
A sandwich plate has a pair of relatively dense, stiff, thin, and generally parallel longitudinally extending skins, and a less dense core body having a pair of generally parallel faces bonded to the skins and formed with longitudinal and transverse cavities connected together in a Z-shape and forming central longitudinally extending tongues.
The invention relates to an end wall module for a transport vehicle. The inventive end wall module having a first wall and the second wall arranged at a distance therefrom. The first wall is embodied in the form of a first corrugated structure and the second wall is embodied in the form of a second corrugated structure. Said corrugated structures are embodied in such a way that they are distanced from each other when the end wall module is mounted without being deformed and are engaged into each other by the shape thereof when the end wall module is at least in the first deformation stage.
A reinforcing sheet adaptable to the reinforcement of a panel formed of metal, plastic or sheet molding compound, which reinforcing sheet contains a perforated honeycomb member with a thermosetting adhesive layer on each side of the honeycomb member and a reinforcement backing adhered to one of the adhesive layers, the other adhesive layer being applied to the panel to be reinforced. The reinforcing sheet provides excellent flexural reinforcement and impact absorbing properties and is advantageously used to reinforce cold rolled steel, such as an automobile panel.
An automobile has a plastic body bonded to a steel frame and a plastic molded unitary front end pivotably connected to the frame and releasably connectable by means of elastic straps to the body. The single-piece front end establishes the front hood, left and right front fenders, and front fascia of the automobile, thereby minimizing body joints and simplifying assembly. The front end can be pivoted at a pivot point located near the front fascia to a drive position to cover the engine of the automobile. In the drive position, a rear edge of the front end is closely spaced from the body, and the front end can be engaged with the body by means of the elastic straps. Further, the straps can be released from the body and the front end pivoted to a maintenance position, wherein the rear edge of the front end is distanced from the body to permit access to the engine of the automobile.
