Driver's cab supporting structure for a commercial vehicle having a safety cell
View Patent ↗A driver's cab supporting structure for a commercial vehicle, particularly a heavy commercial vehicle, has a safety cell arranged in a driver's cab with a front region, and a rear side facing a loading region. A seating region is surrounded by a stiff, cage-like safety cell to which a deformation region for absorbing deformation energy is connected, between seating region and loading region.
1. A driver's cab supporting structure for a commercial vehicle, said structure comprising:
a stiff safety cell arranged in a driver's cab area, with a front region, and a rear side facing a loading region;
a seating region surrounded by the stiff safety cell, to which a deformation region for absorbing deformation energy is connected between seating region and loading region; wherein,
the safety cell has a cage configuration; and
a part of a longitudinal member which is behind and below the seating region is configured as a deformation region, the longitudinal member extending to the front region of the safety cell.
2. The driver's cab supporting structure as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the safety cell is displaceable relative to a vehicle frame.
3. A driver's cab supporting structure for a commercial vehicle, said structure comprising:
a stiff safety cell arranged in a driver's cab area, with a front region, and a rear side facing a loading region;
a seating region surrounded by the stiff safety cell, to which a deformation region for absorbing deformation energy is connected between seating region and loading region; wherein,
the safety cell has a cage configuration;
a part of a longitudinal member which is behind the seating region is configured as a deformation region; and
wherein the deformation region comprises part of the driver's cab.
4. The driver's cab supporting structure as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the driver's cab is designed as comprises a deformation region in a living or sleeping region arranged behind the seating region.
5. The driver's cab supporting structure as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the deformation region is arranged between the seating region and a support against a vehicle frame.
6. The A driver's cab supporting structure for a commercial vehicle, said structure comprising:
a stiff safety cell arranged in a driver's cab area, with a front region, and a rear side facing a loading region;
a seating region surrounded by the stiff safety cell, to which a deformation region for absorbing deformation energy is connected between seating region and loading region; wherein,
the safety cell has a cage configuration;
a part of a longitudinal member which is behind the seating region is configured as a deformation region; and
wherein the longitudinal member has an absorbing region upstream of the safety cell.
7. The driver's cab supporting structure as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the longitudinal member is L shaped, with a first arm of the longitudinal member disposed in front of the safety cell, and the safety cell mounted on a second arm.
8. The driver's cab supporting structure as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the safety cell has a cuboidal configuration, with cuboid edges being formed by roll bars.
9. The driver's cab supporting structure as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the safety cell comprises separate driver's and a passenger's cells.
10. The driver's cab supporting structure as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an additional deformation region is mounted upstream of the safety cell.