| US 7,540,558 B2 | ||
| Door pillar for a supporting structure | ||
| Eberhard Benz, Gaertringen (Germany); Konrad Eipper, Rottenburg (Germany); and Stephan Goettker, Stuttgart (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Daimler AG, Stuttgart (Germany) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/582,273 PCT Filed Nov. 27, 2004, PCT No. PCT/EP2004/013480 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Feb. 15, 2007, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/056369, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 23, 2005. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 103 57 907 (DE), filed on Dec. 11, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0236050 A1, Oct. 11, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. B62D 25/04 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 296—193.06 [296/203.03] | 17 Claims |
| 1. A door pillar for a supporting frame structure of a vehicle body, comprising:
an upper vehicle body section which extends from a vehicle roof as far as a vehicle side edge,
a lower vehicle body section which extends from the vehicle side edge in the direction of a vehicle floor,
a pillar body, which extends at least in the upper section and is made of a first, iron or iron alloy material, and
a pillar base, which is fixedly cast onto the pillar body, which extends exclusively in the lower section, and which is configured
as a single-part thin-walled cast part made of a second, light metal or light metal alloy material.
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