Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Uacj Corporation

Keiichiro Tsuji

Yusuke Miura

Atsushi Hasegawa

Tomohiro Shimizu

Takayuki Fujii

Tomohide Sekiguchi

Yumi Saito

Ryo Kita

Tatsuo Inagaki

Naoki Takaki

Ryota Yamane

Tomoya Yokota

Norikazu Matsuura

Teruaki Aizawa

Akira Hojo

Kazuyuki Kawamura

Koji Yoshikawa

Ryohei Hayashi

A vehicle body including side is provided. The vehicle body includes left and right side frames that extend in a vehicle body forward-rearward direction and support a collision load acting from the front or the rear, and a coupling member that is joined to open ends of the side frames and restricts displacement between the open ends in a direction in which the open ends are away from each other. The side frame has a plurality of low-strength sections disposed with high-strength sections interposed therebetween in the vehicle body forward-rearward direction and having a lower strength than the high-strength sections in the vehicle body forward-rearward direction. The low-strength section closer to the open end has a lower strength in the forward-rearward direction.

Vehicle body

The vehicle body includes: a pair of left and right rear side members extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, and a rear bumper beam which extends in a left-right direction of the vehicle body to be coupled to each rear side member at both ends, and bulges rearward toward a center of the left-right direction. The rear bumper beam has an intermediate body extending in the left-right direction at the center of the left-right direction, and inclined bodies which are displaced forward as expanding to the left and right toward the respectively corresponding rear side member from both ends of the intermediate body. A rearward surface of the intermediate body includes a vertical surface, and an inclined surface which is continuous from at least either an upper end or a lower end of the vertical surface and is displaced forward as separating from the vertical surface.

A shock absorbing member of the present disclosure is a shock absorbing member including a first hollow member () and a second hollow member () that are made of aluminum alloy and are weld joined to each other, in which a weld material and weld beads (W) do not project from a side on which a joined surface between the first hollow member () and the second hollow member () is located.

Shock-absorbing member

A vehicle body structure includes a bumper beam extending in a left-right direction, and left and right side members functioning as a frame member supporting both ends of the bumper beam. The bumper beam includes a connecting member that connects the both ends to suppress the extension between the both ends.

Vehicle body structure

A bumper beam of a vehicle body structure () is provided with a laterally extending laterally middle part () and a pair of end parts () each extending from a corresponding lateral end of the middle part in an outboard direction with a certain inward slant with respect to a fore and aft direction, and each end part curves at a laterally middle point thereof so as to have a concave side facing outward with respect to the fore and aft direction.

A bumper structural body () includes a bumper reinforcement (), energy absorbing members (), and intermediate members (). The sloped sections () of the bumper reinforcement () are connected to the energy absorbing members () and the intermediate members (). The intermediate members () are each formed in a quadrilateral by connecting a first portion () contacting the energy absorbing member (), a second portion () contacting the bumper reinforcement (), and portions connecting the first portion () and the second portion ().

Bumper structural body

A vehicle body structure includes a pair of side members () extending in a fore and aft direction on either side of a vehicle body, each side member having a hollow structure defining a hollow interior (), and provided with a vertical outboard wall (), a bumper beam () extending laterally along fore and aft ends of the side members, and curved so as to be convex on a side thereof facing away from the vehicle body, and a pair of extension members () each connected to a corresponding end part of the bumper beam and partly received in the hollow interior of the corresponding side member, a pair of cushioning members () are each interposed between the corresponding extension member and the vertical outboard wall of the corresponding side member, each cushioning member being deformable in a lateral direction of the vehicle body.

An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle body structure which does not require a specification for attaching an elongated member to the vehicle body frame when attaching the elongated member and does not require time and effort for attaching the elongated member. The vehicle body structure includes a bumper beam, an extension member disposed between the bumper beam and a vehicle body frame and having a space therein, and an elongated member disposed in the space and absorbing an impact received from the bumper beam side. One end of the elongated member is connected to the bumper beam, and the other end thereof is connected to the extension member.

A headlight-affixing structure for affixing a headlight positioned above a front bumper to a vehicle by using a headlight bracket. When viewed from the front, the headlight bracket is substantially formed into an L-shape and comprises a horizontal section extending in the vehicle-width direction along the lower edge of the headlight, and an upright section extending upward from an end of the horizontal section on the inside thereof in the vehicle-width direction. The upright section of the headlight bracket is provided with an upper affixing part for affixing the upper section of the headlight by using a downward-facing fastening member. The middle-outside section of the horizontal section is provided with a lower affixing part for affixing the lower section of the headlight by using an upward-facing fastening member.

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Wako, Japan

Keiichiro Tsuji