Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Minoru Sakamoto

Shotaro Ayuzawa

Takahira Kawata

An automobile vehicle body and an automobile vehicle body manufacturing method is provided in which a metal joint is divided into an upper joint and a lower joint. The upper joint includes an upper wall which is fitted into a side member, a vehicle width direction inner wall and a vehicle width direction outer wall, and a lower joint includes a lower wall which is joined to a lower face and an outside face of a vehicle body floor, and the vehicle width direction outer wall, and therefore, the vehicle width direction outer wall of the upper joint is fastened to the vehicle width direction outer wall of the lower joint by a first bolt, and the vehicle width direction inner wall of the upper joint is fastened to an inside face of the side member by a second bolt.

Automobile vehicle body and automobile vehicle body manufacturing method

An automobile body and a method for manufacturing the same is provided in which a substantially rectangular windshield joining face is formed by a front roof arch, a front portion of roof side rails and a dash panel upper of a lower skeleton. Since the upper skeleton and the lower skeleton can be separated, there is the problem that a gap occurs between lower ends of the roof side rails of the upper skeleton and the vehicle width direction outer ends of the dash panel upper of the lower skeleton, and the windshield joining face is discontinuous. Extension parts are provided inward in the vehicle width direction from the lower ends of the roof side rails, and the vehicle width direction inner ends of the extension parts are connected to the vehicle width direction outer ends of the dash panel upper, thereby eliminating discontinuity of the windshield joining face.

Automobile body and method for manufacturing automobile body

A metallic jointhaving a substantially T-shaped cross section configured to join an inner surface in a vehicle width direction of a FRP side wall memberextending in a front-rear direction and an outer end in the vehicle width direction of a FRP standing wall memberextending in the vehicle width direction includes left-right joining surfacesandjoined to an inner surface in the vehicle width direction of the side wall member, and a front-rear joining surfacewhich extends inward in the vehicle width direction from an intermediate portion in the front-rear direction of the left-right joining surfacesandand is joined to a front surface or a rear surface of the outer end in the vehicle width direction of the standing wall member

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Wako, Japan

Minoru Sakamoto