Antonelli, Terry Stout & Kraus
Vehicle body construction having longitudinally elongated extruded panels and continuous welds joining the panels
 A vehicle body, such as, for example, a railway passenger vehicle body, which includes an external body sheeting formed of opposite sides and a roof and having an internal floor extending between the sides. The sides, above the level of the internal floor, and the roof each include a number of extruded metal plates forming the external body sheeting and integral ribs, extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, are provided on inner faces of the extruded metal plates. The extruded metal plates are welded together at weld lines extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body. 
Hitachi, Ltd.
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Hitoshi Morishige Sumio Ryoichi Kiyotaka Hiroyuki Masato Takeyuki
Tsuruda Hattori Okuno Takayama Kikumoto Yamada Okazaki Watanabe