Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Mitsushige Goto

Harumi Takedomi

Masayasu Yoshida

Shinya Kubota

Takeki Tanaka

Taichi Nezasa

Hisayasu Ohoka

Atsushi Suzuki

Keita Ohtsuka

Kazuyuki Kumakura

Masateru Okano

In a damper housing structure body, an upper edge of a damper housing and a damper base are bonded by spot welding. The damper housing has a U-shape with an opening on a vehicle outer side in plan view, and includes a planar part in a corner between a front wall and an inner wall. The planer part includes plural welding spots arranged in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. Adjacent weld spots have mutually overlapping welding margins or an interval between two adjoining welding points is shorter than an outer diameter of the welding margins. One of the welding spots is welded while a current is applied to another welding spot that has been already welded. A current value for welding the one of the welding spots is higher than another current value for another one of the welding spots that has been already welded.

Damper housing structure body and damper housing structure body fabrication method

A floor panel of a vehicle body is provided with bulging sections in which seats are disposed to the left and right of a tunnel section, and a rear tunnel cross member extending in the vehicle width direction at the rear ends of the bulging sections. The vehicle body is provided with left and right floor extensions set further toward the tunnel section along a dashboard lower relative to the front side frames, floor frames extending so as to span between the floor extensions and the rear tunnel cross member and having a predetermined distance in the vehicle body vertical direction from a rear floor panel, and an energy container placed below the bulging sections and supported on the floor frames. The floor frames are fixed to the vehicle body so as to be capable of being removed from the below the vehicle body.

Vehicle body structure

A hybrid vehicle is provided in which a case () for housing an electrical component including at least a battery module is disposed underneath a floor of a luggage compartment interposed between left and right rear side frames () immediately to the rear of a fuel tank () disposed beneath a floor panel () of a hybrid vehicle, and a canister () is disposed on one of left and right sides of the case (). Since the canister () is disposed further inside than the outer end of the rear side frame () in the left-and-right direction and further forward than the rear end of the case (), when the vehicle is involved in a collision from the side the case () and the canister () can be protected by the rear side frame (), and when the vehicle is involved in a collision from the rear the fuel tank () and the canister () can be protected by the case () while guaranteeing the capacity of a luggage compartment of a rear part of a vehicle body.

Hybrid vehicle

A rear vehicle body structure includes left and right auxiliary members each connected at the front end to the underside of the respective left or right front floor frame and connected at the rear end to the respective left or right rear-suspension mounting section. Each of the left and right auxiliary members is generally in the form of a circular-section pipe and has a pipe section of a circular sectional shape and a flattened section formed on a front end portion of the pipe section. The flattened section has an upper surface portion flattened downwardly and has a lower surface portion having a central region flattened concavely upwardly along the axis of the auxiliary member.

Rear vehicle body structure

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