Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kazuo Omura

Toshihiko Suzuki

Keiichi Honda

Makoto Fukuda

Masayuki Shiga

Yoshimi Mizutani

Yoshiharu Itai

A bumper beam mounting structure for absorbing an impact at a bumper beam and mounting members thereof in a vehicle minor collision is provided. The mounting structure has the mounting members attached to curved portions of right and left curved ends of the bumper beam. The mounting members are attachable to vehicle body members. The mounting members are in a right triangular shape in a plan view. A sloping portion corresponding to the hypotenuse is formed with a depressed portion for absorbing an impact.

Vehicle bumper beam mounting structure

A bumper beam structure includes a beam extending transversely of a vehicle and right and left corned members attached to right and left ends of the beam. The beam is mountable to front ends of right and left vehicle frame members via the right and left corner members. The beam and the right and left corner members are all extruded members. The beam is disposed with its axis in an extrusion direction oriented transversely of the vehicle. The right and left corner members are disposed with their axes in an extrusion direction oriented vertically of the vehicle.

Bumper beam structure

A vehicle bumper structure includes a cushioning member provided at a rear surface of a rear bumper beam. The cushioning member has upper and lower hollow protrusions of different protrusion lengths extending transversely of the vehicle along the rear surface of the rear bumper beam. The upper hollow protrusion, having a protruding length longer than the protruding length of the lower hollow protrusion, includes a protrusion top with a pair of right and left slit-shaped openings provided on right and left sides of a central portion for allowing easy buckling of the upper protrusion.

Vehicle bumper structure

A vehicle bumper beam attachment structure includes a shock-absorbing extension member through which a bumper beam is attached to a vehicle body. The extension member is formed from an aluminum extruded hollow profile and includes a rear wall for abutment with the vehicle body, an inner sidewall extending convexly from an inner end the rear wall toward the bumper beam, a central sidewall extending from a central portion of the rear wall in substantially the same direction as the inner sidewall, a first front wall connecting distal ends of the inner and central sidewalls, a branched sidewall branched off from the central sidewall and extending convexly toward the bumper beam, an outer sidewall extending from an outer end of the rear wall toward the bumper beam, and a second front wall connecting distal ends of the branched and outer sidewalls.

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