Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ahresty Corporation

Masato Onodera

Hayami Nakagawa

Takuo Nakamura

Hiroyuki Seino

Hideki Ito

Junichi Yanase

Fumiya Amano

Koji Fujii

Setoshi Yanagimoto

An upper member of a pillar has a substantially U-shaped cross section, and includes first side walls extending substantially in a transverse direction of the vehicle at least at a lower portion, and a connecting plate at a lower end while keeping the U-shaped cross section. A lower member includes a mounting plate opposed to the connecting plate at a lower portion being lower than an upper end, and second side walls extending substantially in the transverse direction at both end portions of the mounting plate in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The connecting plate and the mounting plate are welded to each other in a state that they are in abutment with each other, and the first side walls and the second side walls are joined to each other, and the upper member and the lower member are integrally fixed to each other.

Pillar construction for vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Toyohashi, Japan

Masato Onodera