Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Seongsu Shin

Joonam Kim

Soo Heung Eom

Hyun Sik Kim

Hyunsik Kim

Mincheol Kim

Sunju Lee

Sung Uk Hong

A vehicle body structure may include: two first rear side members respectively provided on opposite sides of a rear floor; a rear sub-frame including a front cross member and a rear cross member spaced apart from each other, where opposite ends of the front cross member and opposite ends of the rear cross member are coupled to two of the first rear side members, respectively; a vehicle body cross member which is spaced rearward from the rear sub-frame, connected to the first rear side members, and fixed to the rear floor; two second rear side members provided between two of the first rear side members, and arranged side by side with each of two of the first rear side members; and two truss members each extending from first connecting portions to second connecting portions, respectively.

Vehicle body structure

A reinforcement structure for a rear floor of a vehicle includes a rear floor panel, a first cross member extending along a vehicle width direction to be combined with a rear end of the rear floor panel, a side member combined with a side portion of the rear floor panel, a side seal combined with the side member, an extension panel combined with a rear end of the rear floor panel and including a tunnel portion, and a second cross member extending along the vehicle width direction and being combined with the first cross member and the side member, wherein the first cross member and the second cross member are directly combined with the extension panel, and one end of the second cross member is bent to be combined with the first cross member, and the first cross member and the second member form a ring shape at both sides of the tunnel portion.

Reinforcement structure for rear floor of vehicle

A shock absorber housing of a vehicle may include a shock absorber housing body formed in a shape of a box and in which an upper portion of a shock absorber is mounted by being inserted therein, and flanges formed along at least one of edges of the box-shaped shock absorber housing body and thus being coupled to a vehicle body, in which the shock absorber housing body includes a low strength portion and a high strength portion respectively having different strengths due to a thickness difference.

Shock absorber housing and mounting structure thereof for vehicle

A connection structure may include at least one of left/right front pillars and a cowl, wherein the cowl may include a lower cowl having a body plate extended in a width direction of the vehicle and defining a lower portion of the cowl and a first flange, and an upper cowl covering an upper portion of the lower cowl, wherein the front pillar includes an inner front pillar forming an inner side portion of the front pillar in the width direction of the vehicle, and an outer front pillar forming an outer side portion of the front pillar in the width direction of the vehicle, and wherein the lower cowl is fixedly coupled to the front pillar by at least one inner side surface of the body plate and the first flange contacting an outer side surface of the inner front pillar.

Connection structure of cowl and front pillar

An automotive wheel separation mechanism may include a hitting member that hits and breaks a lateral arm connecting a wheel to a vehicle body by being pushed back in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle due to a shock force from the outside in a front collision, and an anti-sliding protrusion that is disposed on the lateral arm to prevent the hitting member hitting the lateral arm from sliding on the lateral arm.

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