Teijin Limited

Teijin Automotive Technologies, Inc.

Suzuki Motor Corporation

Teljin Limited

Masatomo Teshima

Yutaka Yagi

Koji Suzuki

Tadashi Yamaji

Hugh C Foran

Masahiro Kitagawa

Takahisa Egawa

Shunsuke Tamura

Toru Kaneko

Marc-Philippe Toitgans

Naoaki Sonoda

Yuhei Konagai

Katsuyuki Hagihara

Daisuke Hatano

Masayasu Wakabayashi

Naokazu Kondo

Tsukasa Arai

Toshiharu Kanamori

Yoshiki Kashiwagi

Max Kamiyama

Yoshiharu Asada

Marc-Phlippe Toitgans

A battery tray for mounting a battery for driving a vehicle includes a bottom; a peripheral wall erected on an outer circumference of the bottom; a flange connected to a top of the peripheral wall and extending outwards of the peripheral wall; a first inner wall connected to the bottom, a bending angle between the first inner wall and the bottom being between 90 degrees and 135 degrees; a second inner wall connected to the bottom, a bending angle between the second inner wall and the bottom being between 90 degrees and 135 degrees; and a stud bolt pedestal connected to both the first inner wall and the second inner wall and provided above the bottom. The bottom, the peripheral wall, the flange, the first inner wall, the second inner wall, and the stud bolt pedestal being integrally molded from fiber reinforced plastics containing discontinuous fibers.

Battery tray made of integrally molded fiber reinforced plastics

A battery containment construct is provided that includes a unitary tray having a bottom and a set of walls including a first side wall, a second side wall, a first end wall, and a second end wall. The set of walls extending from the bottom of the tray and defining a cavity within the tray. A cover removably attached to the plurality of walls of said tray opposite the bottom of said tray. Energy absorption components attached to the bottom of the tray external to at least one of the set of walls in some versions to enhance impact resistance. The construct has high strength, is light weight and well suited for containing and protecting energy cells or batteries that adjusted to impact resistance, fire resistance, and fluid penetration prevention.

Battery containment construct

A vehicle component includes a body, a first beam, and a second beam. The body has a first fixture region and a second fixture region. The first beam is formed of a first composite material and has a first beam shape. The first beam is attached to the body and extends between the first fixture region and the second fixture region of the body. The second beam is formed of a second composite material and has a second beam shape that is simple compared to the first beam shape. The second beam is attached to the body and extends between the first fixture region and the second fixture region of the body.

Composite vehicle components formed of sheet molding compound reinforced with continuous fibers

Provided is a resin-made impact absorption member having a simple structure and excellent impact absorption performance. A resin-made impact absorption member made of a resin material and includes a hollow convex part having a bottom plane part, a top plane part, and an upright plane part that connects the bottom plane part and the top plane part, in which L defined by the following formula (1) is 0&#x3c;L&#x3c;1.1.&#xd7;tan(45&#xb0;&#x2212;/2)}/&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)

Resin-made impact absorption member

Disclosed herein is a straddle type vehicle that uses resin seat rails, and in which attachment parts of footrests for an occupant of a rear seat of a tandem seat are provided to fastening parts of a member connecting right and left seat rails. The straddle type vehicle may include: resin right and left seat rails extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction; a middle connection member connecting the seat rails to each other; a tandem seat assembled to the seat rails and footrests for an occupant of the tandem seat respectively coupled to the right and left seat rails. A connection part of the middle connection member of the seat rails is provided within a range obtained by vertically extending an outer edge of an attachment part of the footrest coupled to each of the seat rails in side view.

Straddle type vehicle

In the vicinity of a front end of a plate-shaped member of a fiber reinforced resin material having long fibers, to suppress deterioration in strength due to waviness of the long fibers during press-molding. The plate-shaped member is formed by a discontinuous fiber reinforced resin having long fibers. A flat surface part of the plate-shaped member is provided with a hole part, and a side wall is integrally formed to a semicircular end of the flat surface part located closer to the hole part. The side wall is arranged in a region between an opening edge of the hole part closer to a front end, and the front end so as to extend around its outer circumference.

Fiber reinforced resin material plate-shaped member

A resin structure having an impact absorbing property includes a resin member including a resin material and having an uneven thickness structure. The resin member includes a thick-walled portion having an average thickness of a first value in an impact absorbing direction and two thin-walled portions having an average thickness of less than the first value in the impact absorbing direction. The thick-walled portion is disposed between the two thin-walled portions. The Expressions (I) and (II) are satisfied.1&#x3c;1/2&#x3c;1.545&#xd7;()&#x2003;&#x2003;(I)&#x3e;0&#x2003;&#x2003;(II) In Expressions (I) and (II), t1 represents an average thickness (mm) of the thick-walled portion. t2 represents an average thickness (mm) of the thin-walled portions. L represents an inter-connection-point distance (mm) between connection points formed on the two thin-walled portions, respectively, and connected to other structures. d represents a maximum height (mm) in the impact absorbing direction in a range between the connection points of the resin member.

Resin structure and vehicle component

There is provided a fiber-reinforced composite material is constituted by reinforcing fibers with an average fiber length of 5 mm to 100 mm and a thermoplastic resin, in which in a viscoelastic characteristic that is defined by following formulas (1) and (2), an average value in a range of &#x2212;25&#xb0; C. of the melting point of a matrix resin to +25&#xb0; C. of the melting point of a matrix resin satisfies following formula (3):tan &#x3b4;=&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)tan &#x3b4;'=&#xd7;tan &#x3b4;/(100&#x2212;)&#x2003;&#x2003;(2)0.01&#x2266;tan &#x3b4;&#x2032;&#x2266;0.2&#x2003;&#x2003;(3)

Fiber-reinforced composite material

Provided a vehicle skeleton member including: a portion obtained by joining a plurality of members constituted by a composite material of a thermoplastic resin and a reinforcing fiber, and an axis parallel to a front-rear direction and/or a right-left direction of the vehicle body is included in a joined surface by vibration welding.

Vehicle skeleton member

There is provided a vehicle skeleton member including a composite material of a thermoplastic resin and a carbon fiber, wherein the composite material is a unidirectional carbon-fiber composite material (A) that a form of the carbon fiber in the composite material is a continuous fiber aligned in one direction and/or a random carbon-fiber composite material (B) that a form of the carbon fiber in the composite material is a discontinuous fiber arranged two-dimensionally randomly.

A vehicle body structure in which a vehicle body including an upper vehicle body and a lower vehicle body that are joined is constituted in whole or in part by a fiber-reinforced composite material, metal members are inserted into the respective upper vehicle body and lower vehicle body, the metal members being fastened to each other to form a joint portion, and at least two functional components are attached to the joint portion.

Vehicle body structure

A vehicle floor structure, in which a main structure of the vehicle floor structure is a double deck structure including two sheets of panels formed from a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite material; in a region including the double deck structure, each of the panels includes at least two continuous reinforcing structures having a convex open cross-sectional shape; recesses are provided in at least two places of the reinforcing structures; and the panels are joined in such a manner that the reinforcing structures of the respective panels intersect with each other, and that the recesses provided in the reinforcing structures of the respective panels are fitted to each other.

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Masatomo Teshima