Motor vehicle chassis with its suspension, exhaust system, and steering box

A chassis (plural: "chassis") (IPA: /ˈʃæːsiː, ˈtʃæːsiː/) consists of a framework that supports an inanimate object, analogous to an animal's skeleton, for example in a motor vehicle or a firearm. In Biology, the skeleton is a strong and often a rigid framework that supports the body of an animal holding it upright and giving it shape and strength (Also skeletal A motor Vehicle is a Machine which incorporates a motor (sometimes known as an Engine) and which is used for Transportation A firearm is a Tool that projects either single or multiple Projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion

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1950s Jeep cowl and chassis FC for others to convert into finished vehicles. Jeep is an Automobile Marque (and registered trademark of Chrysler. The Jeep Forward Control is a Truck that was produced by Willys and then Kaiser Jeep from 1956 to 1965

In the case of vehicles, the term chassis means the frame plus the "running gear" like engine, transmission, driveshaft, differential, and suspension. An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input This article deals with the concept of a differential in mechanical engineering. Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, Shock absorbers and linkages that connects a Vehicle to its Wheels Suspension A body (sometimes referred to as "coachwork"), which is usually not necessary for integrity of the structure, is built on the chassis to complete the vehicle. Coachwork is the body of a Motor vehicle ( Automobile, Bus or Truck) which is built around a Chassis, rather than Commercial vehicle manufacturers may have “chassis only”, “cowl and chassis”, as well as "cab and chassis" versions that can be outfitted with specialized bodies. These include motor homes, fire engines, ambulances, box trucks, etc. In North American English the term recreational vehicle, and its acronym RV, are generally used to refer to an enclosed piece of equipment dually used as both A fire apparatus, fire engine, fire truck, or fire appliance is a vehicle designed to assist in fighting Fires by transporting Firefighters An ambulance is a Vehicle for transporting sick or injured people to from or between places of treatment for an Illness or Injury. box truck, also known as a cube truck, cube van, bob truck, or box van, is a Truck with a Cube -shaped cargo area

• A tank's chassis (hull) comprises the bottom part of the tank, which includes the tracks, power plant, driver's seat, and crew compartment. A tank is a tracked, Armoured fighting vehicle designed for Front-line combat which combines Operational mobility and tactical A hull is the body of a Ship or Boat. It is a central concept in floating vessels as it provides the Buoyancy that keeps the vessel from sinking Continuous tracks are large (modular tracks used on the so-called caterpillar Tanks construction equipment and certain other off-road vehicles This describes the lower hull, although common usage of "tank chassis" might include the upper hull to mean the tank without the gun turret. A gun turret is a device that protects the crew or mechanism of a projectile firing weapon and at the same time lets the weapon be aimed and fired in many directions Tank chassis often serve as basis for tank-converted platforms such as armored personnel carriers, combat engineering vehicles, etc. Armoured personnel carriers (APCs are Armoured fighting vehicles developed to transport Infantry on the Battlefield They usually have only a Machine Combat engineering vehicles (CEVs are armoured vehicles built for Engineering work on the battlefield or for the transportation of Sappers Types of combat

• A chassis in a television, radio, or other electronic device consists of the metal frame on which the circuit boards and other electronics are mounted. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect Electronic components using conductive pathways or traces In the absence of a metal frame the chassis refers to the circuit boards and components themselves, not the physical structure.

• In computers, the chassis refers to the rigid framework onto which the motherboard, memory, disk drives, and other equipment are mounted. A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. A motherboard is the central or primary Printed circuit board (PCB making up a complex electronic system such as a modern Computer or Laptop Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to Computer components devices and recording media that retain digital A data storage device is a device for recording (storing information (data It also supports the shell-like case: the housing that protects all of the vital internal equipment from dust, moisture, and tampering. The term "case modding" refers to the artistic styling of otherwise rather functional and plain computer encasings. Case modification (commonly referred to as case modding) is the modification of a computer chassis (often just referred to as the case) or a Main article: computer case for personal machines or rack mount for commercial grade servers. A computer case (also known as the computer chassis, cabinet, tower, box, enclosure, housing or simply case

See also

• Backbone chassis
• Body-on-frame
• Monocoque, structural shell, instead of a structural frame
• 19-inch rack