Topic: Porsche’s butt

Group F

Tan Boon HongTan Hui Ru

Tsui Hoi YanYap In HongThia Xiu Wen

Lim Li GimLow Seow Chin

Industry: Automobile

• Patent Number: 2007 – 001566 – (Porsche AG)

Introduction• STRUCTURE OF REAR PART OF CAR BODY OF AUTOMOBILE

• The rear part of the car body has a car body shell cut-out 9 of a tail gate 10 attached to a car body structure. The car body structure has a roof connected assembly. A side-roof side-surface member 22, a crosswise elongated roof frame 23, and a rear column 24 are assembled together into the assembly. The respective members have a metallic seat shell structure having at least one outside wall and one inside wall. The roof connected assembly further has an inside side-surface component 40 comprising a roof side-surface member extension 31, a roof frame extension 37, and a column extension 33, wherein the roof frame extension 37 has a hinge reinforcing portion 51 of a hinge connecting portion fixed thereto. In order to give sufficient stiffness to the structure of the rear part of the car body, the roof frame extension 37 forms a part of the inside wall of the crosswise elongated roof frame 23, and the hinge reinforcing portion 51 is fixed on the inside surface of the roof frame extension 37, and inside roof frame components form the inside wall of the roof frame.

Commercialization

• Advantages– Simple and trendy.– Cool looking.– Specially engineered rear provides sufficient

stiffness using a special hinge reinforcing roof frame.

• Internal customer base

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