Arrangement of a car engine

The application relates to an arrangement of an engine (3) for a motor car, intended to ensure that the engine cannot penetrate the passenger compartment in the event of a frontal impact, even in vehicles with an extremely short body front end. This is achieved by a combination of the following meas...

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Hauptverfasser:	GUERTLER, DIETER, ELLENRIEDER, GUNTHER
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ELECTRICITY INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS MOTOR VEHICLES PERFORMING OPERATIONS SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES TRAILERS TRANSPORTING VEHICLES IN GENERAL VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR
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Zusammenfassung:	The application relates to an arrangement of an engine (3) for a motor car, intended to ensure that the engine cannot penetrate the passenger compartment in the event of a frontal impact, even in vehicles with an extremely short body front end. This is achieved by a combination of the following measures: a. the engine is fitted inclined at an acute angle ( alpha ) to the horizontal so that substantial areas of the engine run behind the front axle (4); b. approximately parallel thereto, a rigid, downward-pointing slide surface (10) for the engine, displaced rearwards in the event of a frontal impact, is formed by an area of the engine compartment rear bulkhead; c. the front and rear engine mountings (8, 9; 13, 14) or bearing points (6, 7) of a sub-frame (5) supporting the engine are designed and dimensioned so that in the event of a frontal impact the engine remains connected to the vehicle by way of the front engine mountings or bearings of a subframe supporting the engine, whilst the rear engine mountings or bearing points of a subframe supporting the engine are destroyed or break away.