Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ykk Corporation

Ykk Ap Inc.

Keiichi Honda

Kazuo Omura

Toshihiko Suzuki

Yuji Kikuchi

Kojiro Okabe

Shigeyuki Nagai

Takenobu Haga

Shinji Kumagai

Masayuki Ogawa

Hiroyuki Hazawa

Kosuke Akasaka

Kazuyuki Fukagawa

Tomoaki Ichikawa

Ryuichi Murai

Shigekazu Koga

Daisaku Nakazato

Takashi Yamanaka

Sakae Sato

A lower garnish arranged adjacent to the lower part of a tailgate includes a surface portion extending along an outer surface of an outer panel and a mounting portion disposed between the outer surface of the outer panel and an inner surface of the surface portion. The mounting portion includes a mounting seat extending along the outer surface of the outer panel and being mounted on the outer panel and a connecting wall connecting the mounting seat and the surface portion. The connecting wall has a first slit extending along a first direction directing from the surface portion toward the mounting seat and a second slit intersecting the first slit at right angles.

Light-load absorbing structure

A bumper beam structure for a vehicle includes a height-raising wall provided on an upper portion of a beam body to be fixedly on left and right frames of a vehicle body. The height-raising wall includes: a bottom wall portion fixed to the upper portion of the beam body; a running-up preventing wall portion extending upwardly from the bottom wall portion; a first reinforcing wall portion connecting to the respective one end of the running-up preventing and bottom wall portions; and a second reinforcing wall portion connecting to the respective other ends of the running-up preventing and bottom wall portions. With such a height-raising wall, the bumper beam structure can interfere with another vehicle of a higher height to prevent the other vehicle from running up onto the vehicle provided with the bumper beam structure.

Bumper beam structure

Bumper beam of a closed sectional shape includes: a vehicle-body-side inner wall portion to be mounted on a vehicle body; upper and lower outwardly-extending wall portions that extend from the upper and lower ends of the inner wall portion toward the outside of the vehicle body; an outer wall portion connecting the outwardly-extending wall portions; and at least one horizontal inner rib connecting the outer wall portion and the inner wall portion, the outer wall portion having a vertical wall portion extending vertically downward from the outer end of the upper outwardly-extending wall portion and a slanted wall portion slanted from the lower end of the vertical wall portion toward the vehicle body. Gusset of a closed sectional shape includes a horizontal rib for dispersing an impact force at least to the slanted wall portion.

Vehicle bumper structure

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 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.

Bumper beam attachment structure for vehicle

An automobile heel stopper shock-absorbing structure is formed from a receiving plate that on the outside has a heel receiving surface and on the inside faces a dash panel with a space therebetween, a front support plate connected integrally to a front end part of the receiving plate and having its extremity joined to the dash panel, and a rear support plate connected integrally to a rear end part of the receiving plate and having its extremity joined to at least one of the dash panel and a floor panel. The rear support plate is made weaker than the receiving plate and the front support plate so that the rear support plate will buckle when a pushing-in load acting on the receiving plate is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. The values of flexural rigidity of the front support plate and the receiving plate are set so that the front support plate falls forward so as to make the receiving plate sink forward when the pushing-in load acting on the receiving plate is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.

Automobile heel stopper shock-absorbing structure

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