Car body with front longitudinal girder - whose end is retained by longitudinally extending shoe-shaped nodal element

摘要

The car body has a front longitudinal girder (5), joined by a nodal component (6) to an outer door sill (10). The girder and door sill are profiled extrusions, while the Nodal component is a casting, preferably of aluminium alloy. The girder is retained at one end in a first shoe-type nodal component, while the end of the door sill fits in a second transverse nodal component (14). The second nodal component is also joined to the floor (12) and the central tunnel (11). It also has a mounting for the first longitudinal one, and an additional joint is provided between the two nodal components. -