Vehicle door, especially for passenger motor vehicles

Claim 1

A vehicle door, especially for passenger motor vehicles, which includes inner and outer door sheet metal panel means forming a substantially closed hollow door body, and which is equipped with a lowerable window means, reinforcing profile means for providing a deformation path in the transverse direction of the vehicle being provided between the inner and outer door sheet metal panel means and extending substantially over the entire length and width of the hollow door body, the reinforcing profile means forming together with the inner and outer door sheet metal panel means a series of adjoining closed reinforcing hollow bodies within the hollow door body continuously extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle over the entire width of the hollow body, the reinforcing profile means including at least one continuous member extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle between the inner and outer door sheet metal panel means over the entire width of the hollow door body to form the continuously extending adjoined reinforcing hollow bodies, said window means including its guide means and actuating means being arranged within the space formed between the inner sheet metal panel means and a wall-like cover panel means covering the inner sheet metal panel means and consisting of a form-rigid synthetic resinous material dissipating energy during deformation thereof, wherein the cover panel means is secured on a flange means arranged substantially parallel to the inner wall and at a distance to the inner sheet metal panel means and the flange means extends over substantially the entire circumference of the cover panel means.