公开(公告)号：US12194838B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17421093

申请日：2019-08-13

Applicant: C.R.F. Società Consortile per Azioni

Inventor： Mario Bochicchio De Maria ,  Dino De Stefano ,  Fabrizio Urbinati ,  Roberto Puppini

IPC: B60K15/07 ,  B60K15/03 ,  B60K15/063 ,  B62D21/02

Abstract: A light duty vehicle includes a vehicle frame, including a pair of vehicle longitudinal beams connected to each other by a plurality of cross-members and a cabin frame, having a pair of cabin longitudinal beams rigidly connected to front ends of the vehicle longitudinal beams. A supporting structure for auxiliary units, such as gaseous fuel tanks or electric batteries, which is carried by the vehicle frame, and includes an auxiliary frame extending between the vehicle longitudinal beams and having connection plates arranged in vertical planes parallel to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle frame and which are in contact with mutually facing inner lateral walls of the vehicle longitudinal beams and are rigidly connected to these longitudinal beams. The auxiliary frame fulfills a structural function equivalent to the structural function of one or more cross-members at an area of the vehicle frame where the cross-members are omitted.

公开(公告)号：US09981702B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-29

申请号：US15188042

申请日：2016-06-21

Applicant: C.R.F. Società Consortile per Azioni

Inventor： Daniele Franceschini ,  Giovanni Monfrino ,  Roberto Puppini

IPC: B62D43/00 ,  B62D43/10 ,  B60R5/00 ,  B62D29/04

CPC classification number: B62D43/10 ,  B60R5/00 ,  B62D29/041

Abstract: A motor-vehicle structure includes an underbody portion of sheet-metal defining an aperture with within there is mounted a floor portion of plastic material or composite material, for housing a spare wheel or other component of a vehicle, such as an electric or electronic component and/or for example a unit for accumulating electric energy. To said floor portion of plastic material or composite material there is associated a holding element having at least a first part anchored to the underbody portion of sheet-metal and at least a second part which can be anchored to said spare wheel or said other component, so that in case of an accident, said holding element prevents said spare wheel or said other component from being projected far away from the underbody structure, by constraining it instead to remain within a distance corresponding to one dimension of said holding element.